Example sentences for: familiar

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

  • Considering the political climate the world over and the political individuals who make certain that into each life a little rain must fall, it would behoove all of us to become familiar with the quotations in this book, most of which seem apt at the moment:

  • Now things have settled out, along binary lines that are all too familiar.

  • In this sense, Lukas' story may have been important as part of the struggle over the future of organized labor, but less so as a struggle over America's soul, at least when compared with the truly momentous Homestead and Pullman strikes of the 1890s, the Triangle Shirt Waist Co. fire of 1911, or any of the other more familiar set pieces of turn-of-the-century labor history.

  • Making no concessions for the uninformed, the spot assumes viewers are familiar with its principal players and references.

  • The contrast is strong enough to sustain the allusion to Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn (bypassing Steinbeck, of course) when Quinn speaks of the narrative trampling over the now familiar gripes of Roth.


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