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

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

"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 Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

He was crossing the hall the next day, on his way to the vicar's study, when Roy bade him go into the drawing-room and make acquaintance with Aunt Milly.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette