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Example sentences for: acquaintance

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On the one hand Chekhov believed that Russian Jews could never be truly Russian; he categorized every new acquaintance as Jew or non-Jew; in his letters, he frequently used a slurring term for Jews.
Approaching an acquaintance I haven't seen in a while I often say, "Nice to see you" (which is true).
(Or, as Powell would put it about a brilliant acquaintance, "She doesn't know she is female, and if she should glance down in the shower and see a set of balls she would only think, Dear, dear, how dusty things get in New York.
But it did not prevent Wilson striking up, in due course, an acquaintance with a frisky widow, whom he met in his favorite vacation haunt, Bermuda.
To that Europe, Gallant brought a new bemused realism and an acquaintance with such petty facts as train schedules and plumbing.