Example Sentences

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It acquaints people with the mechanics of investing and gives them a place to learn without putting real money on the line.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

“Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes” is a stirring, deeply engrossing show that acquaints us with a long-hidden part of the artist’s career.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2024

After a poker game acquaints her with a pair of soldiers, a teasing playfulness also emerges.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2018

Like nothing else, it acquaints women with extremes of feeling.

From Economist • Apr. 19, 2018

A correspondent acquaints me, that he finds difficulty in understanding how the convulsions of the limbs in epilepsy can be induced by voluntary exertions.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus