Sentence examples for only acquaintance from inspiring English sources

The only acquaintance unfamiliar with the film was his old boss from the south tower.

No packages could possibly have reached the consumer, nor was any advertising addressed to them; their only acquaintance with the word was as the name for a drug in whose curative properties they had got confidence.

But far beyond his family, he leaves a host of disconsolate people, from his closest friends to those whose only acquaintance was through what he wrote and said, who know they have lost a rare, wondrously talented and wholly original man.

According to Conee acquaintance constitutes a third category of knowledge that is neither reducible to factual knowledge nor to knowing-how and he argues that Mary acquires after release only acquaintance knowledge.

But for the first six months they were only acquaintances.

They might be going out in a group that they are only acquaintances with.

Our parents were only acquaintances by then, having gone their separate ways after the weeks of forced intimacy.

That means Rodman is Trump and Kim's only mutual acquaintance.

Colleagues spoke of his ability to converse on equal terms with Nobel laureate physicists, with only passing acquaintance of their fields.

Only her acquaintance Philip Sterling is disgusted by the deceit and hypocrisy that pervade Washington, which he views as "the maddest Vanity Fair one could conceive," a "feverish, unhealthy atmosphere in which lunacy would be easily developed".

Yesterday the Mail on Sunday compared the London Mayor with Ronald Reagan, a President with whom Boris shares an engaging optimism, sense of humour and only passing acquaintance with policy detail.