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
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
It was not only that she did permit Mr. Lewis to make acquaintance with her, but she allowed it to ripen into intimacy.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
True, he had given him some information, and he might now, by means of his letters of introduction, contrive to make acquaintance with the count.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
