Synonym: acquaintanceship, conversance, conversancy, familiarity, friend. Similar words: acquainted, quaint, maintenance, in the distance, acquiescence, maintain, stance, intangible. Meaning: n. 1. personal knowledge or information about someone or something 2. a relationship less intimate than friendship 3. a person with whom you are acquainted.
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91, We met once and conversed briefly. That was the extent of our acquaintance.
92, Exalted girls hung out at back stages and at hotels, trying to make the acquaintance of new born stars.
93, Johnnie Warburton renewed his acquaintance with Jack when they were designated to work alternate shifts.
94, My slight personal acquaintance with the subject of all this discouraging impersonal solemnity seemed slightly ridiculous.
95, She's just an acquaintance - I sometimes see her at aerobics.
96, Jozef put me in contact with an old acquaintance of his, who still works for MI5.
97, She's just an acquaintance -- I see her sometimes at night school.
98, My mother, her mother whispered, had avoided acquaintance with the deathly versions.
99, This impression is borne out on close acquaintance, there being little variation in contour on the wide top.
100, After seeing the way Mr. Wyatt behaved at the party, I had little desire to make his acquaintance.
101, And for all his imagination, he was not a good judge of character on limited acquaintance.
102, Clinton admitted that Flowers had been an acquaintance, but strongly denied that he had had an affair with her.
103, On the other hand a close business acquaintance will be surprised to receive a letter from you with a very formal tone.
104, Mark told of an acquaintance who was honored to greet the returning space shuttle astronauts.
105, An acquaintance of Derek's from Texas arrived earlier in the week.
106, Another acquaintance, some one we d not heard from since our last visit, apologized for not answering our annual letters.
107, A senior international referee of my acquaintance was standing nearby and confirmed my opinion.
108, He is easy and unreserved among acquaintance, and has a most agreeable style of conversation.
109, You may have known some one else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance.
110, And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead ... Enough of that.
111, Jane and I met through a mutual acquaintance at a party.
112, One dealer of the author's acquaintance was guided by a specialist journal from the Fleet Street Letter stable. Sentencedict.com
113, Home Office criminologists stress that the rise in violent crime is largely made up of an explosion in acquaintance violence.
114, Comrades, you and I have had long acquaintance with sorrow.
115, The acquaintance is shocked, asks what could have happened to bring about this change, so the main character explains.
116, Still, Dave puts his family at great risk, yet takes smart precautions to protect a casual acquaintance.
117, These colonies are millstones around our necks, as a noble lord of my acquaintance once said.
118, For example, an unpleasant acquaintance of his used part of Maurice's hold as a repository for stolen goods.
119, The Broadcasting Standards Council job, as a sort of public smut-detector, demanded some acquaintance with popular taste and culture.
120, I fancy my acquaintance with the Bard's works and my gift for scribbling would inspire me to produce a dramatic masterpiece.
More similar words: acquainted, quaint, maintenance, in the distance, acquiescence, maintain, stance, intangible, pittance, substance, distance, instance, acceptance, assistance, reluctance, resistance, for instance, happenstance, circumstance, of importance, uncertainty, acquit, acquire, acquired, acquittal, acquiesce, instantaneous, acquisition, contain, tantalize.