Sentence examples for mere acquaintances from inspiring English sources
Ms. Clements and Mr. Nakayama remained mere acquaintances until 2008.
Mere acquaintances bristle at two minutes of empty airspace.
It turns out he and Hughes remained mere acquaintances.
Just one person in a network can infect many others, even mere acquaintances, causing cascading effects.
Old friends may disappear in panic, while others, often mere acquaintances, find enough within themselves to give with unexpected richness.
The front rooms in these photographs are far too ungroomed and unselfconscious to pay host to mere acquaintances.
Jim Trusdale was a mere acquaintance.
But Mimi was willing to risk an encounter with a gun to protect the body of a mere acquaintance.
From Mere Acquaintance to Periodic Dinner Companion (In Groups of Four or More People) to Frequent Midweek Business-Lunch Cohort, Tim has consistently shown himself to be just the kind of person we're looking for in a Best Friend.
"We expect that firing a close family member" amounts to unlawful retaliation, Justice Scalia wrote, while "inflicting a milder reprisal on a mere acquaintance will almost never do so, but beyond that we are reluctant to generalize".
To call everyone you know a "friend" is as odd as calling them all "contacts", but here the emphasis is reversed: rather than clinically treating everyone as a potential business partner, the hegemony of "friends" implies a wheedling sentimentalisation of mere acquaintance.
