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Example sentences for: acquaintance

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The detainee, however, also suggests that Slahi and Binalshibh may have met earlier in 1999 in Frankfurt, through a mutual acquaintance.
Indeed, while I was writing this review an acquaintance phoned to say that he had to replace all the aging dictionaries in his office and asked me to recommend a replacement.
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.
To that Europe, Gallant brought a new bemused realism and an acquaintance with such petty facts as train schedules and plumbing.