Sentence examples for remote acquaintances from inspiring English sources

I love the Internet, which allowed me to track down remote acquaintances of Wasserstein's in hours rather than weeks.

Even accepting that the bureau defines "known to the victim" in the broadest sense, to include remote acquaintances, the figures are revealing.

Remote acquaintances will be much more useful, because they're farther afield, yet still socially intimate enough to want to help you out.

I know for me his getting it has quite demystified the disease, said Jan, I don't feel afraid, spooked, as I did before he became ill, when it was only news about remote acquaintances, whom I never saw again after they became ill.

Now even our most remote acquaintances that long ago forgot we were friends would see every detail of our lives.

She has heard every story about every Down's child that every remote acquaintance of hers has ever been aware of.

Instead, the owner sold the house privately -- no broker was involved -- to a remote acquaintance who came up with $250,000 in cash.

Unlike other telepresence bots, he says, Telenoid is able to be hugged and handled while a user is talking to a remote acquaintance.

Instead, I threw back the curtain and saw an orange-haired older lady, bent over like Betty Boop, enthusiastically blowing a British painter of my remote acquaintance.

In a similar fashion, Schlegel argued that in order to appreciate art productions from past cultures and remote nations, an acquaintance not only with the actual work of art is indispensable, but also with its historical and cultural background: it is imperative to understand the peculiarities of their culture and history as a whole.

The historian John Davies describes Bute as "dour, remote and overbearing on first acquaintance" but with a "sense of responsibility, considerable imagination and an enormous capacity for hard work".