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Example sentences for: acquaintance

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A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a "boyfriend" and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title.
(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.
A casual (married) acquaintance of mine appears to be showing but not in a manner in which one can be certain.
Why then do you let someone who has not the barest acquaintance with economics spout nonsense?
Nearly 30 years ago, Allen wrote a brilliant short story about a man who goes to the hospital to visit a dying acquaintance and then returns on a daily basis, portraying himself as a saint, because he has the hots for the attending nurse.