casual acquaintance

Two years since we've seen each other, and we're talking as if there had never been more between us than casual acquaintance.

I had formed a casual acquaintance with him, and he sat down at our table.

No one admitted to being more than a casual acquaintance.

You may have known someone else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance.

When I first made a casual acquaintance with him he was a bachelor.

I didn't want casual acquaintances getting nervous because of my contact with him.

Casual acquaintances tended to think she was a nice woman and not go much further than that.

So it's fair to say some of my more casual acquaintances were surprised by the move.

It might have been just a lovely meeting of Americans in a foreign country, where even casual acquaintances could suddenly become best friends.

From his tone he might have been talking of a treatment applied to some casual acquaintance.

She said, "I guessed it was more than a casual acquaintance."

"Well, what a conversation to be holding with a casual acquaintance.

He seemed to recall some casual acquaintance saying something recently about market gardening.

The majority were introduced to injection by a casual acquaintance.

He should have told Jessica about this, but there are things a woman might be more willing to tell a casual acquaintance than a daughter.

He'd act like she was just a casual acquaintance.

"Why would he trouble himself to attend the funeral of such a casual acquaintance?"

He struck up casual acquaintances with the other two passengers; but nothing much came out of them.

I'd never known an alien personally, and only met a few as casual acquaintances.

"Casual acquaintance at best," I said, leaning in a bit.

They were casual acquaintances, the husbands of women she knew, or business contacts.

As for sharing your health report, you do not owe this information to casual acquaintances.

With a brief nod, as though she were no more than a casual acquaintance, he closed the door.

If he left now, they could remain casual acquaintances.

New Yorkers are far less likely to be killed by a stranger or casual acquaintance now than 15 years ago.