Sentence examples for we are acquainted with from inspiring English sources

We know, we are acquainted with your rites.

We are acquainted with a woman whose station wagon brakes failed one morning as she was nearing the busiest street on Martha's Vineyard.

"We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live," writes Thoreau, "We know not where we are".

We are acquainted with an interesting and puzzling realm of experience: the realm of the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, and the elegant; of taste, criticism, and fine art; and of contemplation, sensuous enjoyment, and charm.

In the most recent version, Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," we are acquainted with the fate of an upper-bourgeois family in Warsaw from 1939 to 1945, and particularly with the story of the family's musical son, Wladyslaw (or Wladek) Szpilman, a real-life piano virtuoso and composer who regularly played Chopin on Polish radio.

But the act of recollecting differs from that of remembering, not only chronologically, but also in this, that many also of the other animals (as well as man) have memory, but, of all that we are acquainted with, none, we venture to say, except man, shares in the faculty of recollection.

"We're acquainted with the Under-Secretary.

We were acquainted with her wonderful husband and we adored her two children, whom we heard stories about every day.

"I think somebody asked him to help her set that meeting knowing that we were acquainted with the Trump family.

We're acquainted with Litchfield at this point -- its politics, its tribes, its hazards -- so there's little needed in the way of overall exposition.

We all are acquainted with people who think they know far more about important things than they really do.