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
Mr. Lawson’s work should be well known to our readers; for we have urged them often enough to make acquaintance with it.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward
"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 Franzos, Karl Emil
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
