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
Without meaning offence, or wishing to hurt the feelings of relations, I may observe that his mode of life is scarcely one to make acquaintance with him advantageous.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
He would dismount from his pony and go and make acquaintance with the workman, asking them questions about building and bricklaying, and telling them things about America.
From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various
"She said, 'Go and make acquaintance for yourself; I never play master of the ceremonies.'"
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
