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
He was famous also for his holiness of life, but this was of less interest to Augustine; it was Ambrose the orator with whom he desired to make acquaintance.
From Life of Saint Monica by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
“Go away yonder to your window, and I’ll make acquaintance with your brother here—a fine lad he is.”
From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
You had better make acquaintance with our minister, whoever he may be.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
