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 crossing the hall the next day, on his way to the vicar's study, when Roy bade him go into the drawing-room and make acquaintance with Aunt Milly.

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

"She said, 'Go and make acquaintance for yourself; I never play master of the ceremonies.'"

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles 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