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
They live in lodgings and make acquaintance across the air-shaft.
From Hints to Pilgrims by Brooks, Charles Stephen
Without meaning offence, or wishing to hurt the feelings of relations, I may observe that his mode of life is scarcely one to make acquaintance with him advantageous.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James
“Why didn’t you make acquaintance with the brother at Oxford?” asked Nellie.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
