She had few friends there, indeed, mere acquaintances, who came to play bridge and rarely asked her back to their homes.

He managed to meet her gaze as if he were looking at a mere acquaintance.

Jen and I are more than mere acquaintances but not really friendly.

Maybe it would be safer if you and I were mere acquaintances.

Evidently Cranston had met the detective some time in the past, and the two were no more than mere acquaintances.

Many relationships end here, never developing to anything more than a mere acquaintance.

There was so much to say, so many remarks even mere acquaintances could make to each other on such a spot.

At first, the Schneiders and the protagonist's family are mere acquaintances.

Not at all: I believe he knows nothing of its real nature: mere long acquaintance, no more, for him.

We were not exactly intimate, something more than mere acquaintances perhaps, but not much.