familiar

Example Sentences

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Already owning 23 cats at the time, she was reluctant to say yes, but a familiar Scottish voice on the other end of the phone told her: "Magi, take the cat!"

From BBC

Welcoming it back into the world economy will make money for American investors and stabilize Moscow’s relationships with Ukraine and Europe, according to their public comments and people familiar with their thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here, it is a man whose labor disappears behind a woman’s byline, a sly inversion of the far more familiar historical pattern.

From Salon

It is falling apart with a familiar tale of woe in Australia.

From BBC

We also saw the familiar sight of torrential summer downpours and thunderstorms.

From BBC