Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
If “Manhattan” shoots unusual subject matter in a familiar style, Cinemax’s “The Knick,” returning on Friday, takes a much-visited genre, the medical drama, and renders it transfixingly new.
A child familiar with past tenses formed with "-ed" overregularizes by saying "goed" instead of "went".
Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noiſe was ſo familiar unto them.
Meaning of familiar for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "familiar" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.