How to Use familiarity in a Sentence

familiarity

noun
  • He spoke to everyone with the easy familiarity of an old friend.
  • And, in fact, there is a sense of familiarity about the club.
    — Lynn Hirschberg, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The patchouli in the base notes gives it an earthy familiarity.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That familiarity is there, but wait, why are they dressed like that?
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • At times the film nods at its own familiarity.
    — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But that’s a perk of the familiarity trap.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The quest for space quickly gave way to the lure of familiarity.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • There was a familiarity in the ways people talked about her race.
    — Hazlitt, 3 May 2023
  • Not that familiarity has equipped them for the rigours of such travel.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • There's a familiarity and a rapport that has been built over time.
    — CBS News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • It’s helped bring a sense of familiarity as spring practice kicked off this week.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a hint of sweet familiarity, but pleasures are all gone.
    — Jeremy O. Harris, Vanity Fair, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But too many changes come at the cost of the familiarity the show built with its audience.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2022
  • What is striking now is not the drama of the line but its familiarity.
    — Kate Casey, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2026
  • There’s a lot of familiarity with them.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But more often than not, there’s a lot of familiarity.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But don’t discount the trust and familiarity the two share.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • And so there’s a familiarity and a comfort to that to some extent.
    — William Earl, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • City could do with a semblance of familiarity in such a tense fixture.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • This creates an air of familiarity from one space to the other.
    — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Where the Knicks may have an edge is their familiarity with Beasley.
    — Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Plus, there’s the danger of familiarity, of echoing the grand and epic scores of war films past.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The Chiefs have some familiarity with that class.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That same sense of familiarity exists on the Venezuela side as well.
    — Noah Gulley, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Her deep familiarity with the city was part of the reason that she was selected for the job.
    — Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There is a vividness and a familiarity in the work as if we’ve been transported to the past.
    — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The familiarity hastened the get-to-know-you process.
    — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 8 June 2026
  • The same piece also noted the role of familiarity as a means of handling stress.
    — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Here is the iron form of the grief memoir, no less powerful for its deep familiarity.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • How much familiarity was too much?
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026

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