How to Use acquaintance in a Sentence

acquaintance

noun

• 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.
• Offer to babysit or pet sit for a friend or acquaintance.
  — Melissa Santos, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
• Raed Jarrar soon learned that an acquaintance from the neighborhood knew both of the suspects.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
• Joseph and at least one of the victims got into a fight over a female acquaintance, authorities said.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 17 Dec. 2021
• An acquaintance has asked Mr. Levin to assist in locating a friend’s son, who has gone missing.
  — Samuel Sweeney, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2021
• Botello told the station that the driver was a male acquaintance and that he was charged with public intoxication.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
• Sikora is a social acquaintance of the Crumbleys, Dass said.
  — Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2021
• The acquaintance put her together with another player whose partner had jilted her.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2021
• Jones and his legal team have said in legal filings that Jones' high school acquaintance was responsible for the murder.
  — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
• An acquaintance connected Corbitt with a local milliner whose hattery had recently closed.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Nov. 2021
• Eventually, those casual acquaintances and talks could turn into friendships.
  — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
• Jenkins, serving his fourth term as sheriff in the western Maryland county, quickly forwarded the photo to an acquaintance.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• Grant’s two-person road crew consisted of his wife, Mary, along with business acquaintance and friend Deborah Chandler.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2021
• Doorbell footage captured about 20 of her friends, family, and acquaintances constantly arriving at her front door with food, flowers, love, and support.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
• Just as romance has become privatized, with more people dating strangers from apps than acquaintances from their network, researchers told me that there’s been a shift toward privatized friendship too.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
• Miley Cyrus and Pete Davidson will join forces to perhaps answer an age-old question: Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 29 Nov. 2021
• 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
• That is, the self who goes to Lumon has no acquaintance with the self who toils away there from 9-5.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2022
• Still has to make the acquaintance of empress tang soon........
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024