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
You had better make acquaintance with our minister, whoever he may be.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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
But let us say that the young man is bold and ingenious, and bethinks him of a stratagem whereby to make acquaintance with the damsel.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
