Saying goodbye to the young has become the most familiar of rituals.

Yes, this works tells one of the most familiar of all stories.

Some parts of the Moon were almost too familiar, of course.

The stories were familiar, of course: she'd encountered them, in one form or another, a hundred times.

He was a familiar of the household; rather like a neighbor's dog.

Everything seemed so familiar: the trees, the plants, the slopes, the lay of the land.

This is equivalent to the familiar in the case of lists, and does something similar for other containers.

The story is fashioned from the most familiar of components.

The other version, thanks partly to Hollywood, is the more familiar of the two.

Only one face, familiar of old, was in the Lodge.