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
"I am sorry," he said, "to make acquaintance of this man's family in so unpleasant a way, for it went to one's heart to hear him speak of them."
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
"When there," he added, "you may make acquaintance, and establish correspondence in the bookselling and stationery way."
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Without meaning offence, or wishing to hurt the feelings of relations, I may observe that his mode of life is scarcely one to make acquaintance with him advantageous.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
