Example sentences for: acquaintance

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

  • My point is that any casual acquaintance is bound to lead to similar ones, because the surface of rock is exciting only at rare and lucky moments.

  • To that Europe, Gallant brought a new bemused realism and an acquaintance with such petty facts as train schedules and plumbing.

  • By the time I graduated from college, I had studied Latin and French for eleven years, Greek for four, German and Old English for two, Lithuanian and Sanskrit for one, and had established a passing acquaintance with Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish.

  • There came a time when an editor, to whom I'd casually mentioned my acquaintance with John, asked me to write a short piece about one of his mother's book projects.

  • Whatever the fortunes of religion itself, a dwindling cultural acquaintance with the Bible's English is surely inevitable.


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