How to Use familiar in a Sentence

familiar

adjective

• She spoke in a familiar way about her past.
• She has become a familiar figure in the world of politics.
• They felt the waiter was being overly familiar.
• The essay covers familiar ground.
• Most vendors are new, though some of the crowd’s favorites turned out to be some of the most familiar.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The story sticks close to the one that’s familiar both from the novel and from Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2023
• Back then, the cups didn’t have the familiar Erewhon logo printed on them.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• As the leaves start to change, the nights get colder, and the familiar scent of a wood-fire oven wafts down the street, there is another change in the air.
  — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 13 Oct. 2023
• Inside the familiar shape there's a more spacious package, thanks to the wider body.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
• The other cocktails proved to be no more familiar to Kris.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
• The surge of support and drastic plummet is a familiar theme.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 4 Apr. 2024
• None of us will forget the shadows of the giant thumbs and fingers flickering across the face of the familiar bright disk.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• And though every dish didn’t hit the mark, the flavors were warm and familiar, and the portions were generous.
  — Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appétit, 29 Sep. 2023
• The track starts with DJ Khaled’s gleeful ad-libs before the familiar synth beat from the Usher classic kicks in.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
• The story of the Miskito who have left their ancestral home to come 2,500 miles to the U.S.-Mexico border is in many ways familiar.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Those films that did succeed emphasized the fresh over the familiar.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
• The outcome is a cake that's buttery and flavorful with both the familiar tastes of a yellow cake and a spiced pumpkin pie.
  — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
• The hat is familiar, its drab gray material rendered in rows and rows of short, thin lines.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• Other than the fact that contestants range in age from 60 to 75, the formula is familiar.
  — Mireille Silcoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Thankfully, her clever pit bull mix was just looking for help in a familiar place.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
• The stage lights went up, and out walked a familiar man: the rapper Offset, Cardi’s now-estranged husband.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• And the same could be said for the mechanicals, as there’s a lot of familiar hardware under that new sheet metal.
  — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
• But before the standards could be published, the group faced familiar pushback.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2023
• The night before his test results were due back, Nick fell into a familiar routine.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
• Her surroundings are familiar, the adobe ranch house in New Mexico where Sarah Hunt had raised her.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
• And a rainy makeout scene between two characters in the third episode feels a bit too familiar to that steamy, soaking-wet scene Daphne and the Duke of Hastings share.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• Clevinger allowed just one hit and one earned run while striking out 10 batters (sound familiar)?
  — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
• Growing up together, the boys become as familiar as brothers despite the fact that one is meant to die for the other.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
• Men stood in their familiar positions, cramped rows of tired, vacant eyes.
  — Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• And although the grind of spring training is familiar to Wood, Hohokam Stadium is all new.
  — Haley Smilow, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024