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

In private waters there are veritable monsters, but the stranger is not likely to make acquaintance with them.

From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher

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

True, he had given him some information, and he might now, by means of his letters of introduction, contrive to make acquaintance with the count.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various