Words similar to acquaintance

Example sentences for: acquaintance

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

I only had a very slight acquaintance with Merrill, but it seems a sad end for someone who wrote more determinedly happy songs than anyone in history.
The detainee, however, also suggests that Slahi and Binalshibh may have met earlier in 1999 in Frankfurt, through a mutual acquaintance.
Once they make the acquaintance of enough blacks or Asians, their brains will discontinue using race as an identifying visual characteristic.
Bitch, Bitch, Bitch: I've always been grateful to Elizabeth Wurtzel for teaching me the meaning of the word Schadenfreude . It was a concept that came up a lot in the days immediately following Tina Brown's installation as editor at The New Yorker , as many journalists of my acquaintance gleefully counted down the moments until Wurtzel was deposed as pop music critic.
Lederer and Schenkerman put the word cockamamy (or cockamamie ) at the head of a list of Yiddish words found in English as published in Webster's Third New International Dictionary . I have spoken Yiddish since childhood, have a fairly wide reading knowledge and acquaintance with various levels and styles of the language, but have never come across a word or phrase resembling cockamamy . It simply has no meaning in that language.