Example sentences for: acquainted

How can you use “acquainted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1729 Benjamin Franklin said a journalist ought to be qualified with an extensive acquaintance with languages, a great easiness and command of writing and relating things clearly and intelligibly, and, in a few words, he should be able to speak of war both by land and sea, be well acquainted with geography, with the history of the time, with the several interests of princes and states, the secrets of courts, and the manners and customs of all nations.

  • An advertisement in Rivington's New York Gazette on October 6, 1774, “wanted a young man acquainted with keeping books in the Italian method,” and another was from one who, “wants a place.

  • Like other reviewers who have not had the leisure to become acquainted with the HDAS gradually, I am compelled to browse through, snatching at pieces here and there.

  • Lincoln's hair was "black, still unmixed with gray, stiff, somewhat bushy, and had apparently been acquainted with neither brush nor comb that morning, after the disarrangement of the pillow."

  • In a 1757 letter Benjamin Franklin wrote, “I am glad Peter is acquainted with the Crown Soap business.”


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