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    Use "familiarity" in a sentence

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    familiarity


    1. They are likely to look at life from many different angles and perspectives and not get frozen in certain views, typical of certain age groups or become predictable with familiarity


    2. Neither was willing to accept enough of the native culture to leave the familiarity they provided each other


    3. When you are alone, to have even the slightest familiarity of walls and doors and floors shifted constantly, breaks you down and leaves you impotent and resigned


    4. Lucy’s nostrils filled with the inevitable familiarity of the damp earth musk of the subterranean, of watered down piss pools, and the reek of old, decaying tobacco


    5. looking for the thrill of familiarity


    6. than the fingers imagined in scales of familiarity and use,


    7. the inflection and tone of familiarity


    8. Something came with an overwhelming sense of inclusion, or familiarity, something like an increased awareness of the cycle of life


    9. He smiled at her and reached for her hand squeezing it, “That’s great news kid, good for you!” He noted her use of ‘Tar’; a familiarity that spoke volumes


    10. Alexei smiled at her and noticed a certain familiarity about her face

    11. In the decades they’d been together, the decades apart hadn’t dimmed the familiarity of that crate that took up the cart’s cargo box


    12. that this was to ensure an easy familiarity with machines of all kinds,


    13. Someone would’ve known you as a child and, of course, there’s the familiarity of place – your gran would have grown up knowing the same houses, the same families


    14. That he had had the experience of living in Bungalow Two, for several months before his Tahoe departure, gave him the familiarity of having a suite, also with his own lavatory


    15. It can't hurt to ask him, and truth be told, he would be the ideal man for the job---what with his familiarity of the environs and of my own tastes, etc


    16. He had a passing familiarity with them both –


    17. There was a familiarity in it that seized him cold


    18. What she had always realized intellectually but did not fully appreciate until those moments was how diverse the Legion truly was - and that many of its soldiers in Skyrim were in fact Nords and Redguards who had never set foot in her home province and would not have had any familiarity with her or her father’s name


    19. Yet the name’s familiarity drove her to distraction


    20. The male Breton could not shake the feeling that she faced the beast with a strange familiarity

    21. The city’s name caused the Praefect’s ears to perk up and his own eyes to widen with the wonder of familiarity


    22. Still, if I ask for something prefaced by 'Dearest' or 'Darling' or any of the myriad modifiers I'm likely to use off-hand, please know that I am trying to maintain a casual familiarity with you, even though it is very difficult for me to do so


    23. The bootblacks and the broadsheet vendors picked out his silhouette, moving through the dawn mists, with easy familiarity, as he tumbled from his street door into the waiting cab at precisely just after seven each morning, without fail


    24. Thus, when we encounter such an experience in our day-to-day lives, it would automatically trigger a sense of familiarity


    25. by that time, and they can enjoy the ease and comfort that that familiarity affords them


    26. Her body felt soft and firm in all the right places; and rightness in that wonderful familiarity


    27. This had been great adventure, but living in a totally new country without the comfort zone of familiarity, that is going to be a test, I think, for both of us,” she added


    28. ‘There was something about him – a kind of familiarity


    29. “We have the element of surprise, familiarity and numbers in our favour


    30. A sense of familiarity is the best way I can describe it

    31. It had a vague familiarity


    32. It was almost uncomfortable, like a distant memory of something you once knew but had lost familiarity with


    33. familiarity to ease his troubled mind


    34. It was like some game of chess between grandmasters with a burgeoning familiarity to each other


    35. A few months ago, just before the Ansahs started to England, Kwasie Adjaye, Captain of the Royal Hammockmen, and commanding one thousand guns, was accused of familiarity with one of these sisters, Princess Akosia Bereyna, and he was publicly put to death on this flimsy pretext


    36. Many of the coloured troopers were praying aloud with Negro familiarity, but their supplications were constantly broken by the flight of bullets, when a volley was fired in our direction, and they responded in kind


    37. Louder now; with water noises in the background again, reassuring in their familiarity


    38. Was this guy totally whacked out, just trying to impress her with a fancy line of crap – or what? He certainly had some astonishing bullshit! Dozens of questions sprang to mind yet, with a knowing smile, she feigned having familiarity with it all and, to allow herself pause to think, began rolling a joint


    39. Familiarity breeds contempt, but the Prince was taking a real shine to Dawley


    40. The return trip was of equal duration, but their familiarity with the route meant there were fewer surprises, so that the two men not driving the truck often used the time to sleep

    41. My own familiarity with him came out of the fact that he came to Martha most Saturdays to sort out her garden


    42. The entire city centre had been re-fashioned over the 20 years he had been away, but the important parts – railway station, old churches, place-names – maintained their familiarity and tugged at the memory


    43. They’d never been a friend, but he’d had a long familiarity with them


    44. He had watched her eat savagely in the urgency of her hunger, with a familiarity that he could never forget


    45. But other representations became too human and bred the contempt of familiarity


    46. Kosmo used this Twelve-Step approach because of its familiarity in other spheres


    47. job due to the familiarity of the internet


    48. waver of familiarity through him, stronger now than it had been


    49. In his mind, the individual a few seats appeared as someone of familiarity


    50. The terrible words spoken, the laird’s anger had drained out of him and he had gone to bed, where he could lay in the old familiarity of his room and let the musty magic of his house calm and console him












































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    Synonyms for "familiarity"

    familiarity impropriety indecorum liberty closeness intimacy casualness acquaintance conversance conversancy freedom licence comprehension knowledge cognition understanding awareness unconstraint

    "familiarity" definitions

    personal knowledge or information about someone or something


    usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known


    close or warm friendship


    a casual manner


    an act of undue intimacy