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
“Why didn’t you make acquaintance with the brother at Oxford?” asked Nellie.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
On my own account I should certainly never particularly desire to make acquaintance with strangers, but there is nothing I would not be willing to do for this dear girl!...
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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
