Sentence examples for make its acquaintance from inspiring English sources

The legendary naturalist John Muir once wrote: "Whenever I met a new plant, I would sit down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance, hear what it had to tell".

I'm delighted to make its acquaintance.

The others looked up at me expectantly, their stomachs leaning toward mine as if trying to make its acquaintance.

Tablemates who had forgotten how good prime rib could be were happy to make its acquaintance again at Morton's.

I first saw Limón choreography in 1976, but had somehow missed his own troupe until now; I am glad to make its acquaintance.

There's no better chance to make its acquaintance than in "Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World," a career retrospective of more than 30 years that is also the artist's first major museum show and is divided between the New Museum of Contemporary Art in SoHo and the International Center of Photography on the Upper East Side.

I made its acquaintance a couple of weeks ago.

The Armadillo World Headquarters made its acquaintance with Willy Nelson one fateful August night in 1972.

I feel I ought to have made its acquaintance elsewhere first, as I did with cows, chickens and pigs, who grew up, like me, in the countryside in Staffordshire.

In other words, my father was prohibited from synthesizing information — the process by which knowledge is formed, the process by which we know something, rather than simply making its acquaintance.

I'm sorry not to have made its acquaintance back then, since a good deal of the body language studies seem to be devoted to the all-important question: Is your date going to sleep with you?