What is "acquainted with"

Usage examples of "acquainted with".

Lunzie put her things away in the drop-down ceiling locker before she followed Sanborn to the common room to get acquainted with her shipmates.

In other words, I want you to go to America next week, and, without saying that you came from me, or that I sent you, get acquainted with Lord Selford - he travels, by the way, as Mr John Pierce.

I intend to become acquainted with my native land, closely acquainted.

He was well acquainted with this type of entertainment-it was stock-in-trade for his dusty novels.

He was probably trying to become acquainted with them before they got into the swim.

We thought we could find a good place by a lake somewhere and put up the tent, and set a few snares, and locate the nearest berry-bushes and mushroom-patches, and then, while the rabbits were catching themselves, we should have time to get acquainted with our souls again.

But I don't understand why he says that those who are not acquainted with Indian subjects would not understand Nandalal's Shiva-paintings.

There was not much joviality, even though a couple of the local agents who'd been working for Amari were vaguely acquainted with a few of the policemen.

The wines and liqueurs and champagnes of New Orleans were new and exhilarating to her, acquainted with only homemade blackberry and scuppernong vintages and Aunt Pitty’.

Look what you led him into when it suited you to become better acquainted with his mate!

Two more of them were getting acquainted with two magnificent riding horses, who seemed to be getting over their initial skittishness.

He was acquainted with Anton Zilwicki, in the very casual way that two intelligence officers belonging to nations at war encounter each other at social functions in the capital of a neutral state, but the acquaintance was extremely distant.

He considered himself only passably, and imperfectly, acquainted with the customs of these Valdemarans.