How to Use familiar in a Sentence

familiar

1 of 2 noun

• The new study suggests that brown rats were slower to spread around the globe than our other familiars, the black rat and the house mouse.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2016
• For Fringe familiars, there are a few changes for 2019, Bentley says.
  — Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
• In the books, Ambrose has snake familiars who do not get along with Salem, and also has a cute British accent.
  — Alexis Nedd, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
• Toi GB took the microphone, started to sing in a familiar growled whisper, and the room erupted in cheers.
  — Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
• And while homemade is certainly the best, there are also some very good brands out there, from the old familiars to the newly invented.
  — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 19 Dec. 2017
• Such moments sum up the charm of Mardi Gras, when fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, alight among familiars and strangers alike.
  — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Cats make wonderful friends and, for the witchy folks among us, maybe even familiars.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025

familiar

2 of 2 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
• The pretty dress might look familiar to Beyoncé fans, too.
  — Ana Serrano, Glamour, 12 Jan. 2026
• Lopez often changed the familiar pop arrangements of her songs to fit a moody, zesty energy.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
• Amid the disorder, the regime turned to a familiar playbook of crushing dissent.
  — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
• And demonstrators are taking to the streets with familiar outrage.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
• For months, the big box store’s parking lot has been a familiar meeting spot.
  — Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026