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
Ferocious as is their appearance, their manners are perfect, and their great brown eyes seem human in their intelligence as each comes up to make acquaintance.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
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
Mr. Lawson’s work should be well known to our readers; for we have urged them often enough to make acquaintance with it.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward
