Sentence examples for nodding acquaintance with from inspiring English sources

It is doubtful, though, that the movement's latest subscribers have more than a nodding acquaintance with its counterculture roots.

In the elevator of my apartment building I have, quite literally, a nodding acquaintance with any number of people.

"You are greeted every day by practically everybody, and you get to have a nodding acquaintance with the neighbors".

Rose's purpose in the scheme of the play will be familiar to anyone with a nodding acquaintance with the conventions of melodrama.

Mr. Chivers is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and a former Marine with, one suspects, more than a nodding acquaintance with his subject.

He professed to be on more than a nodding acquaintance with all the world's statesmen from Golda Meir to Chairman Mao.

Already nodding acquaintances with Iggy, the pair met because he was in "A band that actually played"—The Iguanas.

Every encounter – the barista's "Have a nice day!", the nodding acquaintance in the lift – becomes reconfigured with game theoretical sophistication to boost Lacie's ranking.

A neighbor with whom I'd had nothing more than a nodding acquaintance happened by.

The two had a nodding acquaintance that developed into a date four years later.

My secondary support group is a woman I hardly know, a nodding acquaintance until recently.