make acquaintance
Example Sentences
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Libraries must be protected as places of learning and reading and as spaces "where we bump into each other and make acquaintance and see each other", Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has said.
From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024
Drawing on longstanding social theory, the authors suggest that certain ingredients — sharing a goal, for example — make acquaintance more likely to bring affinity.
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2010
The damnedest crew of rogues and knaves you're ever like to make acquaintance with.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
It was not only that she did permit Mr. Lewis to make acquaintance with her, but she allowed it to ripen into intimacy.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
People were seen on the land, and a boat was sent to endeavour to make acquaintance with them; but the natives did not wait.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
