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    Use "familiar" in a sentence

    familiar example sentences

    familiar


    1. Jorma was much more familiar with sail than power boats, but had wrestled these pumps into position on more than one big plantation down on Sinbara Point Flats


    2. She had at least, given up the corset wearing this time, and was back in the usual scruffy outfits he was more familiar with


    3. I don’t see life as bumping into familiar souls every day


    4. Needing to hear a familiar voice, Brandon called his parents


    5. He had a native woman, he employed natives in a manner they were familiar with


    6. I am familiar with the sky, even here


    7. Moreover, it is safer to draw it in a language familiar to the testator


    8. The ethnic groups in the Gengee were always Elf and Troll, and doostEr was familiar with the legends from the times when the lines between them were drawn in blood and blade


    9. ‘Yes? What can I do for you?’ I asked tentatively, trying to remember why that voice is familiar


    10. i want to use the text which is familiar to you:”For the grace of

    11. Are you familiar with a situation like that? There is nothing new under


    12. It seems that everyone is familiar with this psalm


    13. How about Sammy the Shark? Familiar with the name?"


    14. and as he got drunk, he always thought he heard a familiar voice


    15. moon rose, he thought he could hear a familiar voice, but it was so far off and so thin


    16. Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling


    17. Airport security is familiar with these items due to their popularity with journalists in recent years


    18. Perhaps the concept of a shepherd is one that more familiar to us


    19. familiar face in which a friend’s once warm brown eyes used to dance and in that


    20. strange feeling, as if he had lived it before, this is familiar

    21. The mental television screen on which I could see so many familiar outlines flickered violently through a swarming wall of static


    22. Later that day, later that night, at some point in the expanse of black time, I heard the trap door swing open and then the familiar scrape of boots on the rungs of the ladder


    23. What did it mean? With the loss of the familiar, of the routine, comes that old friend, fear


    24. He was too calm, as if he were hiding some ragged alter-ego, something that I was by now all too familiar with


    25. "You are familiar with the structure of heaven as described in the Holy Rants are you not?"


    26. He already knew the basics and the concepts and had become quite familiar with fabrication


    27. My guards had not fixed handcuffs to my wrists nor had the by now all too familiar clank of chain accompanied my move


    28. He walked under those stars, and always, when the moon rose, he thought he could hear a familiar voice, but it was so far off and so thin that he still could not make out the words


    29. Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling it across the heavens like thunder, looking at all those aspects of silence and darkness that reinforced the heavens as imagined by a responsible God


    30. He looked down upon the bright and savage earth for the first time in countless measures of eternity and there Smith saw something quite unexpected; the utterly familiar shape of loneliness embodied in the outlandish shell of the hairless ape who dared to contemplate creation, baying at the stars, calling out in utter desperation for the companionship that comes with that first sparkling moment of harmony within the song of songs

    31. Does this sound familiar?


    32. ’ Came the familiar voice of Renald and with it a wave of relief … for a moment she’d almost panicked


    33. He looked into a familiar face in which a friend’s once warm brown eyes used to dance and in that face he found that words


    34. She’d been amazed by the overabundance of cleaning materials that she had correctly guessed would be stored in the cupboard under the sink – some things defy cultural differences! Kneeling on the floor, all the better to examine the various spray containers and bottles piled in there, her amazement turned into confusion … there were plastic spray bottles for limescale removal, disinfecting the worktops … apparently killing 99% of all known germs - though that did raise the question of what danger the remaining 1% presented if it was so vital to get rid of the things … bottles of cream for cleaning the sink and another, lavender scented, for polishing wood, a big bottle of bleach that at least smelt familiar, and noxious substances for cleaning the oven that had signs warning of danger plastered all over them … it was an education


    35. Every nerve ending reached out into the ether, but no faces seemed familiar … but then they might not be anyone she’d met before


    36. She looked too familiar as she looked


    37. It flowed soothingly over Kara’s head, a pleasant, familiar re-embedding in what passed for normality in her life


    38. It was pleasantly warm sitting in the sunshine, the familiar view comforting in its unchangingness


    39. expecting the familiar tread of his boot,


    40. of years and familiar bodies,

    41. Slowly, my senses steadying, I open my eyes and try to calm my breathing … the familiar room is comforting


    42. Catwhiskers were very familiar with Ethereead


    43. ‘Don’t they have kahts with more seats?’ I asked as the now familiar green mist forms around us


    44. Within a fairly short time, we find ourselves being ushered out of the building into the equally familiar woodlands surrounding the building


    45. ‘Anything familiar, Lintze?’ Joris asked, looking around as though assessing what there is


    46. Berndt, totally in control and confident, giving the words of passing … so familiar to me I can almost say them with him … a little voice in my head asking repeatedly why should that be so?


    47. collection of familiar things


    48. repelling the familiar just as they radiate


    49. I waited in a little room at the back and after a short while, heard her familiar voice calling my name, 'Godfrey? Is that you, lad?' She gave a brave chuckle when she saw me, but tired, swollen eyes betrayed her sorrow


    50. ‘St Beuno’s Well … that sounds familiar … I can’t think why … but it will come to me














































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    Synonyms for "familiar"

    familiar familiar spirit associate companion comrade fellow intimate conversant apprised abreast informed acquainted everyday frequent customary well-known usual accustomed easy simple free plain unceremonious unconstrained amicable chummy close confidential thick presuming presumptive unreserved tame friend

    "familiar" definitions

    a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support


    a friend who is frequently in the company of another


    a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard


    well known or easily recognized


    within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange


    (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly


    having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship