FAMILIARITY in a Sentence

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She offered the familiar argument that a strong domestic steel industry is needed for national defense.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAMILIARITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
familiarity
 n.  state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The familiar expression held no more familiarity than the hand which reassuringly brushed my shoulder.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
8  As to the waiter's familiarity, it was quenched as if it had never been.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
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.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
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.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 2
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
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.