How to Use acquaintance in a Sentence

acquaintance

noun
Definition of acquaintancenext
Synonyms for acquaintancenext
  • She struck up an acquaintance with a man from the city.
  • While he has some acquaintance with the subject, he is not an expert.
  • She ran into an old acquaintance at the grocery store.
  • He seemed cold at first, but on closer acquaintance I realized that he was just shy.
  • The Dreschers called a friend who lived in the area to tell them about the sale; two weeks later, the acquaintance offered to loan them the down payment.
    — Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Discord first came onto my radar in 2017 when an acquaintance asked me to join a writer’s support group.
    — Brianna Dym, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Brandon Beckham met up with the woman, an acquaintance, to watch a movie that day, charging documents state.
    — Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2022
  • That of course would be Lewis, an old high school acquaintance, who’s coked to the gills and deep in the grip of paranoid delusions when Skye arrives.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
  • An arriving officer talked to the woman, who suspected a male acquaintance took a check from checkbook.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The acquaintance got in the driver’s seat and both she and her companion took off in the victim’s black, four-door Lexus ES.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
  • An acquaintance, a money trader by profession, offered him a solution.
    — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Story began to receive calls from acquaintances saying a film should be made about the effort, after her team had already been on the ground with the union, filming the entire saga, for about a year.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Falcone reveals that Batman's dad was an acquaintance who demanded the silencing of a journalist.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • From there, the investigation quickly turned to Hyde, a social acquaintance of the Laster family.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The acquaintance returned the car to the man later the next day.
    — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The acquaintance reached across and took hold of my wrist to kiss me.
    — Abigail Jones, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2018
  • No one has the right to touch an acquaintance if asked not to do it.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The acquaintance then ran back to the vehicle and the two males drove off.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • She and an acquaintance drift to a place called Ego Death Bar.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
  • Three men followed a male and an acquaintance, robbed the male and shot him.
    — Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The man pulled out a knife and pushed the acquaintance down an embankment.
    — Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Two people were struck in the head with a glass by an acquaintance.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • My acquaintance at the party was a straight, white, wealthy man in his 60s.
    — Lindsay Ryan, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Still has to make the acquaintance of empress tang soon........
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Prince Philip was a friend—or at least an acquaintance—of Ward's.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 3 Nov. 2022
  • An old acquaintance rang me up out of the blue and made me an offer, and this started a ball rolling.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2018
  • In other ways, the two of them are much more like people of my acquaintance than like me.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 23 July 2021
  • The suspects fled when an acquaintance of the victim approached the door.
    — Allana Haynes, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • When the gift is from an acquaintance, the opposite is true.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The club is a place to gather with friends or business acquaintances to have drinks and small bites.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024

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