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

Bachelor, middle-aged, no children, would like to make acquaintance of an educated lady of suitable age—widow not objected to.

From Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Nilsen, Anthon Bernhard Elias

Now I will leave you in peace, Aunt Milly, to finish dressing; for I mean to make acquaintance with that big green hill before breakfast.'

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

We make acquaintance with his monkey before we make acquaintance with him.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward