"make acquaintance with" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used in formal settings when introducing oneself to somebody new. For example: "It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
Young men new to the market were occasionally advised to make acquaintance with Annie's prodigious breasts; kiss them for good luck.
Dig out back issues of The Ecologist magazine, which he edited for six years from early 2000, and make acquaintance with an inquiring, passionate, dedicated world-saver, calling for the cancellation of poor nations' debts, denouncing Blairite collusion with global corporations and giving Tony Benn space to lament the decline of democracy.
As Deputy Editor of a journal that, at the time, was yet to be launched - the 19th ECSS meeting provided the perfect place to make acquaintance with new and potential Editorial Board members and to get a feel for the research landscape.
Along the way, you'll make acquaintance with resident red-footed tortoises, iguanas, and pelicans that swoop and dive into the water.
"We want the children to make acquaintance with their local disabled peers by meeting and playing with them," says Flora. "This is the only way to become an open-minded, empathetic, and cooperative adult and to build a nice caring community and society".
"He looked for opportunities to make acquaintances with people," Mr. Devine added in a telephone interview.
Watch others who initiate and sustain conversation and make acquaintances with people around them.
As early as 1876 he had spent a whole Summer there, and at Barbizon, Grez, and Fontainebleau American artists first made acquaintance with the brilliancy of his mind and the charm of his personality.
Hamsun, in his flawed English, described "Pan" with considerable accuracy in a letter to its German publisher, Albert Langen: "Think of the Nordland in Norway, this regions of the Lapper, the mysteries, the grand superstitions, the midnight-sun, think of J. J. Rousseau in the regions, making acquaintance with a Nordlands girl — that is my book".
He wrote in French, attended lectures, plunged into conversations in French and made acquaintance with the leading intellectuals of the day, notably those liberals who opposed Napoleon III and began to use the Union cause as a proxy for their own liberal, republican ideals.
In 1840, he made acquaintance with Viennese mathematician L.K. Schulz von Strasznicky (1803-1852) who suggested him to apply his powers to scientific purposes.
