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
It was Simon’s first acquaintance with the notebook.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 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
And he made his first acquaintance with Bulgaria’s most powerful man.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2012
His first acquaintance with this Connecticut periodical had been made while attending the Academy at Haverhill.
From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by W. Sloane Kennedy
