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    Use "contact" in a sentence

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    contact


    contacted


    contacting


    contacts


    1. Studies have led to the realization that sexual interest and the need for sexual contact continue throughout the life cycle, although patterns differ somewhat for women and men


    2. A study found that females of many species, including humans, respond to stressful situations by protecting and nurturing their young and by seeking social contact and support from others, particularly females


    3. The paste will kill many insects that come into contact with it


    4. It would be nice to intercept her messages and see who she really did have contact with


    5. You should be on my side, you've gone over to the natives, I'm trying to at least retain peaceful contact with them, not wall ourselves in some enclave or set out on a vain mission to rescue the motherland


    6. The ones he opposed would establish a boundary and cut off all but rudimentary contact with local society


    7. This will kill cockroaches on contact!


    8. Subterranean require contact with a moist soil


    9. Low foundation walls that allow close to the earth to wood contact are the main areas to look out for as these are prime conditions for the termites to enter the house


    10. Porches, decks, and other wooden structures should not be in direct contact with the soil

    11. Best used as a dust for immediate contact kill


    12. She was using all her control to keep herself from running in panic as it was, without some contact with real land, she wouldn't have been able to maintain her control now


    13. The purpose of meditation is soul contact and, ultimately, union with the soul; its whole object is to enable one to become in outer manifestation of what one is in inner reality


    14. The withdrawing of the mind-consciousness from the periphery of the body, so that the avenues of outer perception and contact (the five senses) are stilled, and the consciousness is no longer outgoing


    15. newly beloved husband, teasing him in her withdrawal from physical contact


    16. As we grew old, the contact reduced to sometimes in dire need


    17. · Avoid contact with the eyes


    18. ‘Well, I know it probably seems a bit suspect, but I am trying to contact your mother and don’t have her address


    19. He pushes himself up sits, shakes his head groggily and looks about, reads the placard -- next to him -- that knocked him cold: "Islam is the Final Solution: For More Information, Contact Shaheet Islamic Center 325567


    20. His mother and Aunt Billie had kept in reasonably close contact for the twenty

    21. He may have trafficked or had some contact with her in the last year


    22. What seemed more important were the affairs of this outpost, especially knowing there was likely to be no more contact after the Heavenly Mother, if they could even get them in


    23. "The Presidente Lula was in contact with the Yakhan from 2332," Ava continued to lecture on stuff Glenelle had missed while she slept in backup


    24. "You have contact with others, you've had contact with the people from this ship


    25. "I've had contact with a few of the world's ancient wizards who own mind-link helmets


    26. If they are in contact with anyone of me it would be my sister that went back


    27. He was the one who actually helped me develop this contact and taught me enough about the human mind to build it


    28. It’s only the knowledge that Stephen was intending to contact her and get her over to his office prevents me from ringing her mobile to check she is all right


    29. She had gotten used to native standards of bodily contact in social interaction in this universe and enjoyed his fingers in her soft flesh


    30. studiously avoids eye contact, drums the fingers of one hand on his briefcase

    31. Now she relied only on her own direct contact with the central hub, the main server within the company that could perform the same activities but with a layer of personal filtering in between - unobtrusive, in other words


    32. A minute or so later she received the data and forwarded it to Kandhi's You, with commands to begin the sweep and report on contact


    33. Your Almighty Healer is waiting for you to come in contact with His


    34. pages of the healing message be the point of contact with your Spirit, like the


    35. There was radio contact between Earth and Kassidor for almost a generation, but it stopped about the time they would have arrived home


    36. The simple fact of habitation, of human contact, even at one remove, gave me hope


    37. Tig already had visual contact with one


    38. There had been radio contact between Brazil and the Kassikan for thirty years, from the time the Lula entered the 61 Cygni system until the war


    39. Rampone grabbed hold of a 10m Staas container with the mighty claw-foot in the rear and gave a burst of gas to grasp another of the belt-iron steel containers and bring it in contact with the first


    40. Our operatives in Brazil say they the Kassikan sent the code to that virus also during the period of radio contact and Brazil was close to putting that into production

    41. "They are probably trying to contact us now but we have no sensors coming in from the direction of Sol to detect if they are


    42. In the downtime, in between these fragmentary episodes of brutal human contact, I lived my pathetic life in a split and fractured landscape


    43. I missed the simplicity of human contact


    44. At the moment of contact, with The Kid waiting for a response, I asked for nothing much at all


    45. Yet he insists on flirting her, using me as a point of contact with Mandy


    46. ‘Yes, I suppose that would be good – they don’t have much contact with young people


    47. ‘We’ll contact your last GP, Kate, and get your notes sent over as soon as we can


    48. Someone has been attempting to contact the female side


    49. He shouldn't have said anything to Enrico, but then Enrico had admitted more to him hadn't he? Homosexuality was at least as important a crime as attempting to contact a wife


    50. Every fibre in my body bent to one purpose: contact














































    1. “I contacted you to let you know what happened with the mission, and to tell you that you don’t have to worry


    2. The secluded point to which one withdraws, is found to lie within oneself; the silent place in which the life of the soul is contacted is that point within the head where soul and body meet


    3. Leo hasn't contacted me either so we are wondering what the fuck is going on


    4. Wiesse contacted us, explained the situation and asked if we could help you … I was delighted to be able to be part of this, Lintze, it has been a great sorrow for me watching the land fading … I wanted to do something positive if only to ensure that Marea grows up in a better place


    5. This all happened within the first one and a quarter seconds after his hand had first contacted the log, he was just swinging it wildly as fast and hard as he could


    6. I then contacted their oldest fellow student, Jason, and asked directly


    7. “That’s exactly why he was contacted first


    8. The White contacted their lead dragon, Wolf, after he observed a particularly nasty fight, and saluted them for their valor


    9. Jake contacted the White and asked him to set up a friendly meeting under the guise of discussing the coming battle


    10. The White contacted Jake a short time later and a meeting was set up for the next day

    11. Wolf contacted the White and explained the situation to him


    12. “Besides, he has an insatiable curiosity and I am sure he would have contacted you himself eventually


    13. Have you contacted your cousins yet?’


    14. Lord Tarak contacted the Queen’s Hold and asked to speak with First Altera, thereby throwing off anyone questioning a call from his Hold


    15. He secretly contacted his true love and put the


    16. ‘It was the spring of 1976 when she first contacted me about her ideas for converting the house


    17. ‘So, when she contacted you about the conversion, had she got plans or anything drawn up?’ I asked, making a note to check up on Mr Gosling or whatever his name was


    18. The High Council contacted them as they approached the Companions’ home world


    19. contacted, and a meeting – a Faerie Council – was rapidly convened


    20. They have been working on it for months it seems and contacted all the past residents –everyone who can is coming

    21. Relatives have been contacted and are in attendance


    22. ‘He’s the one who contacted you and invited you to join them


    23. missing, we contacted the local police, as well as the Guardians and


    24. She may have been contacted by her son and we don’t want him doing a runner thinking that he’s a wanted man


    25. ‘Well, I suppose you could say it started when I was contacted by Chas …’


    26. “We think he’s contacted several of the same people we have and we think he is devoting a suspicious amount of energy to this after so much time


    27. Two days later Harold and Chloe separately contacted Harry through telegram of their pure delight at the proposed Honeymoon destination


    28. Then he contacted Mr


    29. Crystal contacted the satellite company and signed the place up for internet and classes taught via the internet, everything from electronics to cooking classes


    30. "I started the company because the traditional publishing companies that I contacted about my

    31. He stepped forward, his flesh melting as it contacted the stone


    32. "Yes, I think you'll have to admit that the person or persons who contacted you on this case were most unusual


    33. "They didn't really say anything about keeping the fact that they contacted us a secret


    34. "But you haven't contacted Klarrain or anyone from his companies?"


    35. Those people that contacted you are not even people


    36. That would have been in the first ten schools he would have contacted, he should have taken that route after all


    37. "Who have they contacted?" Alan asked


    38. In fact, she was the one first contacted about the event


    39. ‘But I haven’t been contacted


    40. James Hendersen was contacted by the

    41. She contacted her colleague Leonard Heigener on an audio link, gave an account of the strange man’s visit


    42. Roidon contacted the high commander


    43. It was him: the man who had contacted her


    44. He then contacted the Central Council subcommittee for space missions, requesting to speak to Admiral Zolla II: the most senior – the oldest council member by over a century, son of the great elder Zolla, the legendary commander and time-traveller


    45. Elena informs me that she has contacted Dr


    46. After that he rarely appeared or contacted them


    47. He had contacted Jean and she said she would make enquiries for him


    48. What if she didn't want to see him? After all, she hadn't contacted him


    49. I quickly contacted the Humane Society that had posted the listing


    50. ‘Have you contacted him recently?’ Armion asked












































    1. "There has to be something you aren't telling me also, like who you are contacting when you send those messages?"


    2. "Why are you here Petrakis? Who said you could come down here without contacting the local Gardai?"


    3. The woman he was contacting was not really a former lover was she? She was the sister of a former lover since they had been lovers after their minds separated


    4. ‘They have agreed that you should have company on this journey and are contacting the most suitable men to see if they are free to accompany you


    5. He had just come down from the tower, it was already too late in the week to reach the Kassikan and there was nothing else he was interested in contacting at the time


    6. Don’t promise that you’ll call if you have no intention of contacting her again


    7. Was she contacting something of that? Well of course, the communication system was ancient


    8. Are you really a native of the planet you call Kassidor that I'm contacting thru my polar-optical probe? Or are you a sentient hack in my system?"


    9. After two days of contacting the listed people, I had drawn a


    10. “We wrote and asked if we could visit him but we were told this wasn’t allowed and that they would let us know when it was in the meantime we should refrain from contacting them

    11. I planned on contacting Paul at the ‘Hustle Herald’


    12. She wanted to wait a bit before contacting the police, and then Roy Mack suggested that she come see


    13. But he had no way of contacting her, until an idea suddenly came out of the blue and he slapped his fist into his open palm


    14. Pulling out his two-way radio he tried contacting his associate, then the chopper pilot, but both radios were off-air


    15. After tearing a new asshole in the constable, Gonzalez had tried contacting Sir Craig Holland but had been told by his snotty PA that he was unavailable at present, and no, he didn’t know when he would be


    16. For the briefest moment he thought about contacting the Procrastinator Militant asking for his assistance, perhaps telling him even to go as far as relaxing their vigilance in an effort to bend but not strictly break the Law


    17. He still had no money, no friends, and no close relatives that he felt comfortable contacting


    18. Do not be in any way shy about contacting a psychologist or counsellor to help you in this


    19. ‘ Well, he didn‘t waste much time contacting the police and truant officer when he noticed the children weren‘t going to school


    20. contacting the refugee camp, as Wynne’s voice ceased to crackle through the helm

    21. and promote something on internet marketing, then use the tactic of contacting vendors and


    22. bidding sites or by contacting companies that advertise for a transcriptionist on


    23. By contacting them and providing them with a copy of a link to your portfolio,


    24. Contacting your customers and demonstrating that you are


    25. factor for someone contacting you


    26. even tried contacting him, though I never heard anything back


    27. no way to verify which address was his without actually contacting him


    28. contacting me out of respect for me and my request that they did not


    29. The thing that scares me about them contacting me is that they


    30. My brother and sister contacting me really shook me up, and

    31. So I guess the reason they have been contacting me and my kids


    32. We did discuss contacting the governments of the humans, dwarves, giants and gnomes, but only to inform them of the critical nature of the coming nexus, and to council them to caution until a new stability is reached


    33. most, or the best headline, or the type of language to use when contacting them, and


    34. there made it seem more as if she was contacting “old


    35. Contacting “a guy she used to know” was exactly


    36. still, it made her feel better to think of contacting Kieran


    37. Lucy was not concerned about him contacting any


    38. why he was precluded from coming home or contacting


    39. Johnnie Babcock, who supervised hundreds of Park employees, put up with managers contacting him each day with problems they would try to lay on his desk


    40. There’s a military command spell for contacting your subordinates that Ria gave me, but it’s not really sorted out in my mind yet

    41. This can be easily overcome by contacting a local furniture rental store and


    42. Nuke accompanied Marjie and me during several of these journeys, especially when he knew we would be contacting specific people


    43. “She remembers flying a craft to the area where the Hopi Indian Reservation is now located and contacting the elders


    44. Access to the corridor he has used for contacting his cohorts at the Station has been cut off


    45. Their worlds were so far apart; and he deserved not one kind thought from her since he had gone off like that without even saying goodbye or contacting her afterwards to hear if she was all right


    46. Anything to keep her thoughts from Rick would be so good! She considered contacting her son to see if the invitation to visit him still existed but out of pride could not bring her-self to do that


    47. It might take longer than most applicants think to secure the letters of reference, so contacting letter writers early helps to ensure they will have enough time to craft and share their recommendations


    48. He was out of his mind with boredom, but he had followed Stanton’s instructions completely by not contacting any friends or family


    49. Has adequate consideration been given to the possibility of contacting hssswwx in any of these other locations?”


    50. contacting Amanda's only living relative, her sister Margit










































    1. Our engagements after retirement lead to interactions with different kinds of persons, such as immediate family members, near relatives, close friends, old acquaintances and new contacts


    2. "There’s a handful of amorphous transient contacts moving in the debris…


    3. The most important contacts I observed are the following:


    4. The most important contacts are the following:


    5. The contacts I noticed were few and they were all in the second story: a) I write and illustrate a scene where Sandra fights with gigong sticks


    6. ? How are you connected with the Mukhabarat? What’s your real job here? Who were you spying on? Who are your contacts?”


    7. So what are the facts? An operation arranging illegal immigration of undesirables (according to Renald Forhamm) ostensibly organised from Earth with well-placed contacts across on Errd, a suspicious Errdian in a position of some power in London, Earth, who is upset by the arrival of an agent of the Secret Guild on his patch … and come to think of it, he’d not liked the fact you were coming to this part of the country


    8. I have contacts in Stephanos town who tell me she's visiting her arty-farty lesbian friend down there


    9. Some of my contacts in Bristol have mentioned his name in passing – he’s highly respected as a solicitor you can trust


    10. I might have some contacts with publishers as well … though we could serialise it in the mag

    11. Shaun lives a twilight life, moving through the rock pools and shallows of the Atlantic coast line, selling directly sometimes, but usually preferring to move the merchandise on quietly through his own network of club and playground contacts


    12. For Davie the round of check-ups at bars and the odd meeting with Jock’s business contacts moves him that little bit closer to the streets of Glasgow


    13. just look on the contacts list of the phone and 'viola


    14. If Brad and Lizzie have any contacts


    15. He knew the trail lay inside the Kassikan, but he also had no contacts within the Kassikan


    16. all his old contacts were out of the question


    17. Grundy had contacts in that field and assured Harry he would endeavor to arrange tutelage should it come to that


    18. It had not been lost on any of that powerful cadre of merchants and proprietors comprising the Village Council that Lawrence Spelman was a man of extraordinarily deep pockets, with international contacts and connections, and most eye-opening to them, he was the close friend and confidant to George and Belle Livingson


    19. Harold's position required the extensive employment of international connections and contacts, the very sphere of enterprise Lawrence had so recently vacated


    20. In addition, she’d recently made some important contacts, which may serve her best interest now

    21. That person had contacts who knew the


    22. The bed just had enough room for one person, which ironically was fine for me because I didn't have any female contacts that required the use of the bed


    23. Those friends and contacts who share your passion in the off-line world,


    24. may need to call upon the skills, talents or other contacts hiding within


    25. Utilizing your team member’s contacts will increase the speed at which


    26. I was not a mafia don but I had my share of contacts


    27. Fortunately Zarko had contacts with the royal family and Xonia promised to arrange it


    28. Her discussions with Rikke, Tullius, Maro and even miscellaneous Guild contacts in Riften had reinforced the notion that she would have to go about things by less than conventional means


    29. Her joining up with the Thieves Guild on account of the availability of contacts and Imperial information networks had been the first such step


    30. Can you bypass the contacts on this slot?”

    31. They would have been the last people he would have suspected of being his UN contacts


    32. Sure, everything seems legit on their site, but it’s all surface: there’s no real contacts, it’s all channelled through secretarial and administrative staff; no one with any real connection


    33. As the only conceivable option now, Scott got out of the spacesuit and onto the chair, placing his head inside the arch like it was some scanner, slightly raised side cushions held his head; they had cold spots which he took to be metal contacts


    34. The sensory deprivation would have driven her truly insane had it not been for her frequent contacts with Scott, who visited her, either as an ethereal presence or seeming to be more real


    35. sure they blasted light in the right place, shaved off just the right level of roughness at the edges of a chip, added gold contacts here, not there


    36. careful of which of our contacts in the mortal world you trust


    37. ‘There are still contacts in high places


    38. He relied only on intelligence from contacts he made at sea


    39. The walls were bare, but spread out across the bed were some items that Alexia must have gotten through her contacts – forbidden items that he guessed she would have to keep hidden


    40. Then there was the issue of citizenship and residence: her factory and all of her family were in Thailand, while all of my family and most of my business contacts were in the

    41. ” she said smiling and continued with her tale “Consequently, they lost a shit load of money and some good contacts and now they need to get the money back from him


    42. They would initiate 80% of all contacts in Rhodesia and you can read my (free) book: The Egg Breakers - Counter Terrorism in Sub Saharan Africa about the different techniques used during the counter-insurgency operations


    43. “I hear those are good events for burgeoning businesswomen to make useful contacts


    44. Most, if not all contacts took place at close range, so the cartridge was powerful enough


    45. Shoot-outs or contacts in SAP COIN terminology were nothing new to us


    46. I say again that drug use and avoiding contacts never happened in SAP COIN or not from what I know of or heard of


    47. All shoot-outs or contacts were unexpected


    48. First, most of the contacts inside Rhodesia were orchestrated by the Seleous Scouts who would meet with other genuine terrorists groups and identify their whereabouts to fireforces


    49. In general the moral was very high but as we saw in Rhodesia their actual contribution limited to chance contacts unless on external raids


    50. It worked better than the 20mm as most contacts took place at close range and had a faster fire rate which was important to keep the terrorists down and unable to accurately fire their RPG7's














































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    Synonyms for "contact"

    contact physical contact tangency contact lens inter-group communication liaison link touch impinging striking middleman get hold of get through reach adjoin meet meeting coming together connection referral intercourse commerce interaction impact hit strike collision union adhesion speak to talk look up call approach graze connect adhere

    "contact" definitions

    close interaction


    the act of touching physically


    the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity


    the physical coming together of two or more things


    a person who is in a position to give you special assistance


    a channel for communication between groups


    (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact


    a communicative interaction


    a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication


    be in or establish communication with


    be in direct physical contact with; make contact