first acquaintance
Example Sentences
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Those tears were my first acquaintance with the harsh truth of a baseball aphorism: The ball will always find you.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023
If it’s your first acquaintance with his work, you’re in for a roughly evocative, suspenseful tale in the same compelling vein as the Dardenne brothers’ intimate, propulsive and nonjudgmental character studies of desperation and morality.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022
Of course, even when a work grabs us on first acquaintance and never lets go, it still evolves.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2012
Its narrative follows Mr. Milchan through his first acquaintance with the arms business via his father’s company, through his introduction to Israel’s nuclear program by Mr. Peres and the Lakam chief, Benjamin Blumberg.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2011
But if we strive to picture to ourselves the state of the savage's mind on his first acquaintance with fire and its properties we shall find him utterly at a loss to account for.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Adler, Felix
