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
Augustine, eager to make acquaintance with this wonderful work, procured it at once and read it.
From Life of Saint Monica by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
“Go away yonder to your window, and I’ll make acquaintance with your brother here—a fine lad he is.”
From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
Ferocious as is their appearance, their manners are perfect, and their great brown eyes seem human in their intelligence as each comes up to make acquaintance.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
