"acquaintance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In this way he gained an extensive and accurate acquaintance with continental rural economy, of which he made excellent use in studying parallel phenomena at home.
- Our navigators did not stay at this place without gaining an extensive acquaintance with the productions of the country and the manners and customs of the inhabitants.
- An extensive acquaintance of young men told her that the topic of conversation was now due to be changed.
- She has an extensive acquaintance at Bath among appalling old gentlemen with thin legs and nankeen trousers, and is of high standing in that dreary city.
- A professor at Kraków University, he was an erudite man whose Dialectic gives evidence of extensive acquaintance with new currents and authors, but he was more erudite than independent as a thinker.
- This residence in Washington as a bureau officer of high rank gave him an extensive acquaintance, and he became one of the most popular men in the capital.
- Their stilted rhetoric hinders their address, but they speak towards an extensive acquaintance with ancient poetry.
- For a young woman to think that she has an extensive acquaintance, signifies that she will be the possessor of vast interests, and her love will be worthy the winning.
- "Dogs don't," said Pat knowingly, out of her extensive acquaintance of three dogs.
- His brother William, who by this time held the Camden professorship of ancient history, and enjoyed an extensive acquaintance with men of eminence in London, was in a position materially to advance his interests.
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