acquaintanceship

Example Sentences

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Our acquaintanceship didn’t start on a promising note.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

Stoya: And be totally prepared for some people to only want a friendly acquaintanceship from him.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2019

But it was not until after they bumped into each other on a Washington sidewalk, in 2014, and agreed to get together that their acquaintanceship turned into a romance.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2018

The key phrase was: "Miss Keeler and I were on friendly terms. There was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler."

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2014

Remote cousins and family friends whom mere acquaintanceship invested with a sort of blood obligation noblesse oblige.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner