"acquaintance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

acquaintance sustantivo

sustantivo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 6
business acquaintance • family acquaintance • childhood acquaintance • chance acquaintance • school acquaintance • ...
acquaintance + verbo
Kolokacji: 14
acquaintance says • acquaintance describes • acquaintance tells • acquaintance makes • acquaintance includes • ...
verbo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 11
renew one's acquaintance • make the acquaintance • tell acquaintances • claim acquaintance • visit acquaintances • ...
(2) tell, visit, name, call
Kolokacji: 4
1. tell acquaintances = powiedz znajomym tell acquaintances
3. acquaintance named = znajomy nazwał acquaintance named
4. call acquaintances = znajomi rozmowy telefonicznej call acquaintances
  • Then, he was gone, calling, no doubt, other acquaintances for more conversation.
  • I could hardly restrain myself from calling friends and acquaintances to boast.
  • They are where many people can meet close friends or people they would just call acquaintances.
  • Humphrey spent his last weeks calling old political acquaintances.
  • In modern English, people in such a relationship would not even be called friends, but acquaintances (if they even remembered each other afterwards).
  • She put out the word, calling friends, acquaintances and other choral groups.
  • I wouldn't call them personal friends, but certainly friendly acquaintances.
  • So she was calling friends and acquaintances frantically, trying to redress the balance.
  • Ms. Jory began calling friends, acquaintances and strangers with an interest in education, trying to generate financial and moral support.
  • Seized with an 11th-hour panic that not enough people would attend, I called intriguing acquaintances several days later (yes, you were the genetic boosters).
(3) claim, invite
Kolokacji: 2
adjetivo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 39
old acquaintance • new acquaintance • mutual acquaintance • casual acquaintance • close acquaintance • ...
preposición + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 12
with acquaintances • to acquaintances • of one's acquaintance • from acquaintances • on acquaintance • ...

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