acquaintance
Example Sentences
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This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, Hebrew-school classmates and, it sometimes seemed, any passing acquaintance.
Artists asserting Jewish identities may also have only slight acquaintance with their history or significance.
He is one of the seven Tibetans who gathered information on the protest from acquaintances in the village.
A lot of times friends or acquaintances are always like, “Oh, I’m always so scared to have you over to my house because I don’t want you to judge it.”
Fearing the worst, my friend snapped into action, calling around to several acquaintances until one located an obstetrician she trusted who traveled from her home on the outskirts of the city to a clinic downtown.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
