Example sentences for: acquainted

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

  • When his friends appear on his show, they get treated no better than some war criminal with whom he is not acquainted.

  • From the moment it became clear that John F. Kennedy Jr. and his two passengers had been lost at sea, Keeping Tabs--who was passingly acquainted with Kennedy--began to brace herself for the inevitable tabloid onslaught.

  • Brown responded on December 10, 1789, to Slater’s initial inquiry, saying Almy and Brown certainly wanted the assistance of a person with Slater’s skills because an experimental mill had failed, “no persons being acquainted with the business, and the frames imperfect.”

  • In a 1757 letter Benjamin Franklin wrote, “I am glad Peter is acquainted with the Crown Soap business.”

  • Lincoln's hair was "black, still unmixed with gray, stiff, somewhat bushy, and had apparently been acquainted with neither brush nor comb that morning, after the disarrangement of the pillow."


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