FAMILIARITY in a Sentence
Learn FAMILIARITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
240 example sentences for FAMILIARITY, such as:
1. He is familiar with Chinese history.
2. Tom is quite familiar with the author.
3. I saw a few familiar faces among the crowd.
4. He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood.
5. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
2. Tom is quite familiar with the author.
3. I saw a few familiar faces among the crowd.
4. He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood.
5. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
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Meanings and Examples of FAMILIARITY
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familiarity
n. close or warm friendship
n. personal knowledge or information about someone or something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The familiar expression held no more familiarity than the hand which reassuringly brushed my shoulder.
2 Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
3 He acquiesced in all her decisions, caught all her enthusiasm; and long before his visit concluded, they conversed with the familiarity of a long-established acquaintance.
4 In some surprise at the familiarity of this question, or at least of the manner in which it was spoken, Elinor replied that she was.
5 I was prepared to meet you with the pleasure which our separation naturally produced, with the familiarity which our intimacy at Barton appeared to me to justify.
6 The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favor, conduced to my distraction.
7 She made use of me to tease other admirers, and she turned the very familiarity between herself and me to the account of putting a constant slight on my devotion to her.
8 As to the waiter's familiarity, it was quenched as if it had never been.
9 I approached him tenderly, for I loved even him; but he showed his whole set of teeth, got under a chair expressly to snarl, and wouldn't hear of the least familiarity.
10 She went up to Alexey Alexandrovitch, and with the familiarity given by the approach of death took him by the arm and drew him towards the bedroom.
11 I need only to look at you with him, and I feel happy, she said, and something in the rough familiarity of that with him touched Kitty.
12 She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed.
13 His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.
14 He had seen men of Ned Van Alstyne's type bring their hats and sticks into a drawing-room, and he thought it added a touch of elegant familiarity to their appearance.
15 In the thronged restaurant, taking their places about Mrs. Bry's illuminated board, their confidence seemed to gain support from the familiarity of their surroundings.
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1 I had only a basic familiarity with computers.
2 Over the years, he gained greater familiarity with the culture and way of life in the country.
3 In fact his familiarity with the Bronx was pretty limited.
4 Where familiarity is based on experience, we might not care much.
5 I saw a few familiar faces among the crowd.
6 Tom is quite familiar with the author.
7 Complaints about school food have become a familiar refrain.
8 It was reassuring to hear John's familiar voice.
9 Something about her voice was vaguely familiar.
10 He is familiar with Chinese history.
11 She offered the familiar argument that a strong domestic steel industry is needed for national defense.
12 Unlike the familiar blood alcohol tests in motoring cases, urinalysis does not demonstrate that the employee is impaired by drugs.
13 The smell is very familiar to everyone who lives near a bakery.
14 To his delight a familiar, tall, languid figure lowered itself down the steps of a club.
15 He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood.