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 Payn, James

This induced her rather to discourage all demonstrations of her husband's usual disposition to make acquaintance with the new neighbours, whom she set down in her own mind as "queer people"—a very comprehensive term.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

Her noisy delight over the prodigies who had been kept up to make acquaintance with their governess quite won the mother's heart.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis