Sentence examples for vague acquaintance from inspiring English sources

"Hi, Julie," a vague acquaintance says at your child's school's parent evening.

A vague acquaintance - a self-confessed social-networking addict - helped get me through the door.

A vague acquaintance swears blind that "a bit of spliff" is perfect for chess.

No novelist would presume to embark on their first book without at least a vague acquaintance of the work of their predecessors.

An early episode of her cult web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, hinged on just such micro-anxieties – with Rae fretting over office etiquette as a vague acquaintance approaches her down a hallway.

For weeks beforehand, we are compelled to bombard every friend, relative and vague acquaintance with creative e-mails and Facebook alerts, polish up our Web sites with suspiciously youthful author photos, and, in an orgy of blogs, tweets and YouTube trailers, attempt to inform an already inundated world of our every reading, signing, review, interview and (well, one can dream!) TV ­appearance.

Referencing vague acquaintances is less risky then referencing people that you are very fond of.

If your file is filled with art projects, certificates, and recommendations from vague acquaintances, your reader may be annoyed rather than impressed.

You will forever cherish the posts you made on your timeline, so invest in a nice camera and get posting for all your family, friends, and vague acquaintances to see!

And 83% of these personal contacts were a vague friend, an acquaintance, someone they did not know well.

I've heard from lots of women who were shamed when they bottle-fed their children, and I've watched friends with new babies field questions on Facebook from supposedly well-meaning people – some of whom are only the vaguest of acquaintances – about whether or not they're going to breastfeed.