first acquaintance
Example Sentences
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Those tears were my first acquaintance with the harsh truth of a baseball aphorism: The ball will always find you.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023
If it’s your first acquaintance with his work, you’re in for a roughly evocative, suspenseful tale in the same compelling vein as the Dardenne brothers’ intimate, propulsive and nonjudgmental character studies of desperation and morality.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022
“What a dignified and serious city!” exclaimed Friedrich Nietzsche on first acquaintance in the late 19th century.
From New York Times • May 10, 2017
And he made his first acquaintance with Bulgaria’s most powerful man.
From Slate • Sep. 28, 2012
It was his first acquaintance with the tragedy of adventure on the Spanish Main, and his unschooled heart turned sick at the thought of the terrible fruit his scheme had borne.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
