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.
• 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
• Rowe is an acquaintance of the girls' mother, court records show.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Among that group of A-list acquaintances is Nobu Matsuhisa, of the more than 50 Nobu restaurants and hotels around the world.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• The other group was asked to think about a distant acquaintance.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• At the height of the farm protest, an acquaintance of mine came back shaken from a visit to a New Delhi park.
  — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
• And please stop comparing them to the offspring of your friends and acquaintances.
  — Abby, Houston Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2018
• Don’t mess with the delicate forces of the acquaintance ecosystem.
  — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2023
• The lender, an acquaintance, would have to be paid one way or another.
  — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 11 June 2020
• An acquaintance had gotten a vaccine that way, the friend said.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• One man from the neighborhood, close in age to Jones, said that a hundred of his acquaintances had been shot to death.
  — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2023
• There are so many friends, acquaintances and even strangers that have shown care and concern since day one.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024