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How to use acquaintance in a sentence

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I gave an online acquaintance a ride to a meetup in a town three hours away.
A good number of cyclists of my acquaintance have fully taxed, insured and MOT'd cars on their drives.
Sentimental souls are invited to renew their acquaintance with the Warrumbungle National Park during its 50 year celebrations next month.
After graduating from Paris, Burman returned to India to renew his acquaintance with the tradition of the art and the culture of his native land.
Our first acquaintance with power is, presumably, our experience of the power of personal agency.
Long acquaintance with her own profession makes her impatient with fantasists and phonies.
John Raw has a liking for comic roles, and it is easy to see why on making his acquaintance.
A very quiet individual, his gentlemanly manner endeared him to all who made his acquaintance.
Two lovable rogues are discussing a mutual acquaintance who has just been released from prison.
Blackburn Hawks renew acquaintance with arch-rivals Whitley Bay Warriors this weekend, not once, but twice in back-to-back cup and league action.
And like Terry, over the course of their rocky acquaintance Jean gains greater understanding and insight.
The latter requires some sort of acquaintance with, or apprehension of, objects like numbers.
I was walking to the laundromat today when I met an acquaintance, Paulos, on the road.
So this online acquaintance was running a LARP and needed video characters for it.
My acquaintance with her just before she entered government made the experience particularly alarming.
In 1811 he returned to England and renewed acquaintance with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh.
Not to mention he sees me as a safe choice, the last male in his acquaintance who'd ever play the masher with his wife's kin.
It just didn't seem to me that the Reaper was in any hurry to make my acquaintance.
An acquaintance of his asked for permission to cut the rather weedgrown grass off it for hay.
Another polo acquaintance stole one of Rubi's jockstraps and nailed it up in the barn where he kept his breeding stallions, as a good luck charm.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Every blue devil of my acquaintance came to pay his visit to me, and brought a few more of his private friends.
Well, the fact is I've had a letter from an acquaintance who has just got back to Madras by the Bokhara.
A word about Autun itself, a town that improves marvellously on acquaintance.
The equestrienne talked thus volubly as she led the way to the ante-room, her new acquaintance stumbling after her.
I sat with my acquaintance in the middle of the room, and the evoker of spirits on the dais, and his wife between us and him.
One overworked matron of my acquaintance has perfected an ingenious and time-saving combination.
In all the years of their acquaintance he had never known the Commandant in an expostulatory vein.
Frank never makes acquaintance with a new old woman, but she gets the face-ache.
And your acquaintance with him is positively and bona fide of a state nature?
In a tavern of the faubourg he made the acquaintance of a basket-maker who worked at home.
That would advertise our acquaintance with him to all the gossips on the Bosporus.
That was the day when an old acquaintance from the lower levels sold him the chance on the 80th Level's breakthrough.
As we both wrote in the same chamber, we preferred each other's acquaintance to that of the unlicked cubs that surrounded us.
There is method, too, in the colonel's associations, and all his acquaintance is gilt-edged and bankable.
Does he come under the recommendatory 'firman' of any dear friend or acquaintance?
Its shapes and sounds and silences and colours have allured me from first acquaintance.
Lady Augusta intimated stiffly that she had not the honour of the baronet's acquaintance.
Although my bare legs got considerably stung, I forgot to swear in Tehuelche, and forgave the plant for old acquaintance sake.
We have seen that at the beginning of any acquaintance the fellow-being is inevitably dealt with in the categoric way.
The further my acquaintance with the ring extended, the more convinced I became that tauromachy will last as long as Spain lasts.
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