Usually Kirk was placid and friendly, the sort who was pleased when acquaintances called him by his first name.

What friends or acquaintances called on your wife?

Its proprietor's friends and acquaintances probably called it "carrots."

That is what my old acquaintances call me.

He was sure that she would come back again to this cave that his new acquaintances called a bungalow.

Good acquaintances, who know they can call me anytime if they had my phone number.

An acquaintance called the police, who took her to a shelter for battered women in northern Virginia, where she stayed for 10 days.

He said an acquaintance of his had called, a kid named Cornell, nicknamed Red.

On Sunday, an acquaintance called me about joining her Bridgehampton house.

An old acquaintance of mine, but not what you could call a friend.