Words similar to acquaint
Example sentences for: acquaint
How can you use “acquaint” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
To understand a people, acquaint yourself with their proverbs , or as another proverb puts it, Customs are the fifth element of the world .
Because English spelling is often unrelated to its pronunciation and inconsistent with it, the majority of spellers were used as teaching tools in schools; but there was also an opportunity to acquaint adults with accepted spelling forms (just as there is today, among the bad speller's dictionaries).
(In fairness, it does sometimes happen that they have little or no time to acquaint themselves with the script before reading it on air: stop-press reports flash up on the Autocue; urgent traffic bulletins or revised continuity announcements have to be read unpreviewed from a last-minute printout.)
Through them--plus a cache of invisible-ink letters Maggs writes to Phipps in order to acquaint the protégé with his protector--we look into Maggs' tortured soul, and witness an Oates in all but tumescent pursuit of Maggs' life story, which he will exploit for his next best seller.