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
He was crossing the hall the next day, on his way to the vicar's study, when Roy bade him go into the drawing-room and make acquaintance with Aunt Milly.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
"I am sorry," he said, "to make acquaintance of this man's family in so unpleasant a way, for it went to one's heart to hear him speak of them."
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
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
