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Example sentences for "become acquainted"

  • I had likewise occasion to become acquainted at the Venetian Embassy with a lady from Venice, the widow of an English baronet named Wynne.

  • Should you not approve of that way to become acquainted, the nun will appoint a certain casino in Muran, in which you will find her alone, in the evening, any night you may choose.

  • Our sadness was in reality nothing but shyness; we loved each other, but we had had no time to become acquainted.

  • Shy and elusive, it slips away again in a most unfriendly fashion, and is lost in the wet tangle before you have become acquainted.

  • After all that may be said in the books, a bird is either common or rare to the individual who may or may not have happened to become acquainted with it in any part of its chosen territory.

  • Though we become acquainted with it chiefly in the migrations, it impresses us by its numbers rather than by any gorgeousness of attire.

  • Indeed, if we cannot study our bird afield, the next best place to become acquainted with it is in the pages of the English poets.

  • He was kind and affable, and easy to become acquainted with, but owing to diffidence on my part I did not improve the opportunity as I should have done, a circumstance which I now much regret.

  • Mr. Thomas, not being familiar with the concerto, wished to be present in order to become acquainted with it, and at the appointed time was the first to make his appearance.

  • However, I liked his looks, as he seemed good-natured, though perhaps not like a man with whom one might easily become acquainted.

  • I was 13 years old when I wished to become acquainted with an enormously large giantess, in whose body I might take a walk, and where I could inspect everything.

  • I don't find the Pryors easy to become acquainted with," said mother.

  • So long as they don't and won't become acquainted with me, or any one, of course it would.

  • Perhaps you would allow me to ride over some week day and become acquainted?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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