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familiar with

adj. having fair knowledge of; "they were acquainted"; "fully acquainted with the facts" [syn: acquainted(p), acquainted with(p), familiar with(p)]

Usage examples of "familiar with".

You and your people were chosen because you're already familiar with artillery.

Nonetheless he managed to become familiar with the shape of my breasts and thighs under my clothes.

He was familiar with the Skink acid throwers, for that's what the man up there had used, but he did not stop to wonder how a human would have come to have one.

These he had mounted in cardboard tubes, making instruments of ever-increasing power until he was familiar with the moon and planets, the nearer space stations, and the entire landscape within thirty-kilometres of his home.

Sometimes we only watched them from a distance, all too familiar with their wagging, bovine heads, their haggard shoulders, their rotted, ragged clothing.

She and Tee were familiar with one another's likes and desires and feelings, like two people who had been together all their lives.

The boy, now, he might help us if we keep him on-site and with Margolies, a man intimately familiar with Metaxos's work.

Fortunately, after traveling with Grimalkin for what would have been several years in linear time, he was familiar with the workings of this sort of device.

Grief, yes, but not the same sort of grief she was so familiar with in Aari's makeup.

He was familiar with the stiction-release of the magnetic soles each time his foot lifted, but his companion looked as though she'd blundered into a tar pool.

He was familiar with the stiction-release of the magnetic soles each time his foot lifted, but his companion looked as though shed blundered into a tar pool.

They said I would be able to work undercover because I was familiar with that milieu.

Then the weapon thudded against the height on which we were perched and I snatched at it, my fingers closing about warmth, then folding into a hold which made it seem that I was well familiar with this weapon, that all its secrets had been always known to me.

These he had mounted in cardboard tubes, making instruments of ever-increasing power until he was familiar with the moon and planets, the nearer space-stations, and the entire landscape within thirty-kilometres of his home.