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
"When there," he added, "you may make acquaintance, and establish correspondence in the bookselling and stationery way."
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
“Why didn’t you make acquaintance with the brother at Oxford?” asked Nellie.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
He was famous also for his holiness of life, but this was of less interest to Augustine; it was Ambrose the orator with whom he desired to make acquaintance.
From Life of Saint Monica by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
