Example Sentences

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With a youthful inquisitiveness that belies his age, Dr Staub has acquainted himself with the trappings of 2020, from video conferences on Zoom to the demands of Black Lives Matter protests.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2020

Now she’s 24, a woman whose work has acquainted her with the paradox of organizing people without rights.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2017

Living with less space has acquainted her with every nook in the house, she said, but she still has enough space to host 80 people on Easter Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2016

Sanika Williams, a 17-year-old from Southeast Washington, appreciates how the program has acquainted her with the diversity of art.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2016

‘Am I to understand, Mr. Tottle, that Mrs. Parsons has acquainted you with my feeling—my affection—I mean my respect, for an individual of the opposite sex?’

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles