Sentence examples for past acquaintances from inspiring English sources
When past acquaintances ask me if bodies are still dumped in Red Hook (now called the "the oceanfront"), I smile.
In middle age, Conant continued shedding past acquaintances who might remind him of his squandered potential — his "checkered career," as he often put it — in favor of an endlessly renewable social resource: the riverbank.
Several of you found yourselves in the same position I did: feeling bad that people thought they were being ignored: "Now I have to apologize to several past acquaintances and let them know I haven't been blowing them off!" Several readers wanted to know how they could access the Other folder on their phones or tablets.
Several of Godwin's past acquaintances spurned him, he found himself increasingly the subject of attack by loyalist newspapers, and his philosophical opinions were parodied and ridiculed in novels, reviews and pamphlets.
One final caution: Obituaries often elicit legitimate condolences from friends and past acquaintances.
I wished that past acquaintance could see Mr. Grumpy now.
Mr. Gensler recused himself from the investigation of MF Global after Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, raised questions about Mr. Gensler's past acquaintance with Mr. Corzine.
If someone picks up the memoir of a past acquaintance without turning first to the index to check if he (or she) is in it, then he (or she) is either a saint, a liar or Stevie Wonder.
quality, 8), rather than, as in Plato and Aristotle, also their greater pleasantness — but on the same ground of the authoritative choice of intellectuals who are supposedly uniquely qualified to judge by virtue of their past acquaintance with experiences of both kinds.
For all his jihadist past, several acquaintances say, he is an easygoing fellow with a taste for Scotch and little sympathy for extremists.
With only a vague understanding of each man's past, these acquaintances focus only on the present life each has made for himself in Bangkok.
