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 then, stepped up to him to make acquaintance.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
You had better make acquaintance with our minister, whoever he may be.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
“Why didn’t you make acquaintance with the brother at Oxford?” asked Nellie.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
