This is the familiar mode in which air conditioners operate.

Here, he had his familiar alternate mode of an F-15 Eagle.

Use of the familiar mode made Marika's words all the more cutting.

Grauel and Barlog frowned at his use of the familiar mode.

The track finds Fab in a very familiar mode, talking to the ladies.

Drifting has been a familiar mode of hers for a while.

Steve Post was in familiar mode, deploring commercialism on public radio.

Once the body learns to tolerate itself, the immune system shifts to the more familiar defensive mode.

He fell naturally into the courteous, familiar mode used to address the elderly.

It is an overly familiar mode of address to an unfamiliar woman.