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Acquaintance in sentence

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If any of the kids in "The Bad News Bears" were your child, or if you had any acquaintance with a youth sports coach even remotely like Morris Buttermaker, you'd be outraged and embarrassed.
Michele leads a very boring life, he is the kind of person I would never wish to make the acquaintance of.
Mr. Neise's old acquaintance June Duprez (as Inga Beckering) adds femininity and intrigue to the cast.
She becomes quite wary of the place almost immediately, and becomes especially concerned when Julia (Juliet Landau, daughter of Martin), a friendly new acquaintance, disappears.
Deborah Harry, of Blondie fame, has a cameo as sort of an acquaintance of Neeson's.
The other painfully familiar scene is the last one - being in the home of your beloved and pretending to be some distant acquaintance.
On the train, the couple are introduced to Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi), who is on his way to visit an old acquaintance.
When the bus they are riding meets an accident, the couple and Dr. Vitus are forced to spend the night in the mansion of Poelzig (Boris Karloff), Vitus' old acquaintance who has more than hospitality in mind when taking them in.
A group of friends make a new acquaintance in Julie (Tisa Farrow) while vacationing in Greece; as they travel by boat, she convinces them to make a stopover on an island where she's supposed to meet some friends.
They relate to him a charming story regarding an acquaintance of theirs named Percy.
My first brief acquaintance with "Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell" came when I watched the trailer.
The other three guys introduced are of perfect stereo-type of a robber's movie: we have the old veteran, the main character's best friend and somebody who wouldn't let him down; the 'oppponent', a very aggressive and not to be believed in type; last but not least 'Smiley', an old acquaintance of the main character; he organizes the money for the deal.
And yet even a cursory acquaintance with fairly recent history is enough to know that “bombing the shit” out of people does little to win wars.
I have had a close acquaintance with Toyota for three decades.
But, in my half-century of close acquaintance with Japanese life, I have never thought of the Japanese as stoic.
Sartre and Aron began their 50-year acquaintance with a shared elite French education that included a formative period in Germany just before the rise of Nazism.
To be sure, this does require some passing acquaintance with the US Constitution, where the Electoral College is defined.
“She works for the restaurant,” my acquaintance explained.
The role Vronsky had chosen, with their removal to the palazzo, was quite successful; and having through Golenishchev made the acquaintance of several interesting persons, he felt tranquil for a time.
But Anna's aunt intimated to him, through an acquaintance, that he had already compromised the girl, and that he was in honour bound to propose to her.
In his brother's presence Vronsky spoke to Anna merely as to a close acquaintance, as he always did in the presence of a third party; but it was assumed that his brother knew of their relations, and they spoke of Anna's going to Vronsky's estate.
He knew that his mother, who had been so delighted with Anna when she first made her acquaintance, was now merciless toward her for having caused the ruin of her son's career.
air made that gentleman's acquaintance, while all her thought was how to get married.
A perfect Gretchen, and I have already made her acquaintance.
'Why have you risen so early, my dear?' said his aged hostess, who came out of her hut, addressing him cordially as a good old acquaintance.
'An old acquaintance,' said Anna, pointing to Annushka.
Since his marriage so many new and serious aspects of life had been revealed to him, which owing to his superficial acquaintance with them had formerly seemed unimportant, that he anticipated and looked for a serious meaning in this election business also.
This influence was promoted by his wealth, by his title, by the splendid house in the town which had been lent him by his old acquaintance Shirkov, a financier who had founded a flourishing bank in Kashin; by the excellent chef whom he had brought from his estate; by his friendship with the Governor, who had been a former comrade and one whom Vronsky had even protected; but above all by his simple behaviour in treating every one alike which had quickly induced most of the noblemen to change their opinion as to his supposed pride.
had with rabid virulence told him a lot of pointless nonsense, every nobleman whose acquaintance he had made had become his partisan.
The Governor asked Vronsky to accompany him to a concert in aid of a 'Brotherhood,' which was being arranged by his wife, who wished to make Vronsky's acquaintance.
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