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Example sentences for "acquainted with"

  • This is the finest fish of New Holland that I am acquainted with.

  • The gentleman is acquainted with Flintwinch; and when the gentleman was in London last, I remember to have heard that he and Flintwinch had some entertainment or good-fellowship together.

  • I am acquainted with no reason for examining myself, or for being examined, about it.

  • How should you be acquainted with any of her family?

  • If I should be quite sure that to be acquainted with it will do Mr Clennam no good--' 'I know you are attached to him, and will make him the first consideration.

  • That Mr. Sherlock is an Irish clergyman; I am acquainted with him.

  • Newton, who had no wish to be acquainted with a French cachot, sooner than it was absolutely necessary, gave the promise required by Monsieur de Fontanges, assuring him that ingratitude was not a part of his character.

  • I certainly am, sir; and so is every one who is acquainted with her.

  • I am acquainted with Cranmer, and I know that he is loyal and faithful.

  • Is not the whole court even now acquainted with my splendid luck?

  • Every one, who is acquainted with Westminster-School, knows that there is a Curtain which used to be drawn a-cross the Room, to separate the upper School from the lower.

  • I am acquainted with many a brave Fellow, who carries his Mistress in the Lid of his Snuff-box, and by that Expedient has supported himself under the Absence of a whole Campaign.

  • Your love to your Fannikin, I well know, makes all trash interesting to you that seems to concern her ; and I have no greater pleasure, when absent, than in letting you and my dear Susan be acquainted with my proceedings.

  • My business is at Melun, in a certain presbytery I am acquainted with.

  • My father says that he does not wish that I should be acquainted with Mrs. Stokes," said Lucy.

  • He was not, however, acquainted with any of the persons with whom she was walking, and was obliged to give up his purpose.

  • I believe he fully comprehends the nature of true silence; and he is acquainted with many interior persons whom we wish to see in Switzerland, &c.

  • This slight incident was the means of making me acquainted with an honest and religious man, as I afterwards found him to be.

  • He soon made us acquainted with a few others of a similar turn of mind.

  • Pray, Stella, be satisfied; 'tis very pretty: and that I must be acquainted with such a dog as this!

  • They are very good girls; and if Lady Betty went to Ireland, you should let her be acquainted with you.

  • You will think it affectation; but nothing has vexed me more for some months past, than people I never saw pretending to be acquainted with me, and yet speak ill of me too; at least some of them.

  • I have other things to mind, and of much greater importance;[7] else I have little to do to be acquainted with a new Ministry, who consider me a little more than Irish bishops do.

  • Three ladies were railing against me some time ago, and said they were very well acquainted with me; two of which I had never heard of, and the third I had only seen twice where I happened to visit.

  • It may, so far as can be discovered, be drawn up by the gentleman who offered it, and, perhaps, no other person may be acquainted with it.

  • Perhaps, like other gentle and quiet characters, it will be better appreciated the longer I am acquainted with it.

  • They are among the most picturesque birds that I am acquainted with; indeed, quite the most so, because the manner of their flight makes them almost stationary parts of the landscape.

  • Summer-squashes are a very pleasant vegetable to be acquainted with.

  • Rakshasa (Ghatotkacha) acquainted with a hundred kinds of illusion, as the latter advanced.

  • Bhurisravas, too, was, by an act of unrighteousness, slain by thee that art so acquainted with righteousness.

  • I thank you for making me acquainted with the book, and I thank the Jew Mousha for making me acquainted with you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acquainted with; civil administration; exploring party; full discussion; hath brought; large quantity; lead them; light thing; matters relating; nearly equal; nothing worth; oblong square; observed another; plural form; profit sharing; short half; sing cuccu; something analogous; special class; square mile; throw them; wheeled vehicle