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).