Acquaintance

//əˈkweɪntəns//

"Acquaintance" in a Sentence (16 examples)

I have some acquaintance with chemistry.

Do you have a business acquaintance in Randolph., Ltd?

I have a bowing acquaintance with Mr Smith.

I have a nodding acquaintance with Mr Smith.

Mr Smith is an acquaintance of hers.

I'm very happy to make your acquaintance.

He is not really a friend, just an acquaintance.

He is only a passing chance acquaintance.

Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?

When I was staying in Boston, I made her acquaintance.

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I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

Contract no friendſhip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he reſembles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.

Having therefore conſulted with my Wife, and ſome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea.

Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.

The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.

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