CONTACT in a Sentence

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For CONTACT, below is one of 170 sentences:
She did, at first, put into her contact with the patrons a willingness which should have moved worlds.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTACT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
contact
 v.  get in touch with; reach
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1  Jonas was a Yankee and a bachelor, and the fact that he was an overseer forever barred him from any contact with the County social life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Fortunately Scarlett had come into contact with the two men very little, for Will had persuaded her to let him handle the trading while she managed the plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  Mostly of having life suddenly become too real, of being brought into personal, too personal, contact with some of the simple facts of life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  And she had missed the daily contact with him, even if there was always someone around.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
5  But even had the two been in closer contact, it was impossible to think of Mrs. Peniston's mind as offering shelter or comprehension to such misery as Lily's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
6  Her visit to the Girls' Club had first brought her in contact with the dramatic contrasts of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  But it is one thing to live comfortably with the abstract conception of poverty, another to be brought in contact with its human embodiments.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  The light extinguished, they lay still in the darkness, Gerty shrinking to the outer edge of the narrow couch to avoid contact with her bed-fellow.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  He laid his hand for a moment on hers, and there passed between them, on the current of the rare contact, one of those exchanges of meaning which fill the hidden reservoirs of affection.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
10  The difficulty was to find any point of contact between her ideals and Lily's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
11  Even the contact with the packet did not shake her nerves as she had half-expected it would.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
12  She did, at first, put into her contact with the patrons a willingness which should have moved worlds.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  It also seems to me that such scratches in the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for I have most remarked them in the large, full-grown bulls of the species.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
14  For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
15  And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
16  She is attempting to contact her estranged husband to break the news.
17  We will never in contact with each other.
18  If any employee needs to take time off, s/he should contact the Personnel Department.
19  The United States is in the van of the quest to establish contact with beings from the beyond.
20  I wondered why he should bother to try and establish contact with me.
21  In the unlikely event of a problem arising, please contact the hotel manager.
22  A poor contact causes power to fail occasionally.
23  We will contact your former employer as a matter of course.
24  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
25  If you have a query about your insurance policy, contact our helpline.
26  In a formal interview, try to maintain good eye contact with the interviewers.
27  We'll make our decision and contact the people involved.
28  I advise you to withdraw your allegation before I contact my lawyer.
29  When you contact these two wires, the machine will start at once.
30  Careers Officers maintain contact with young people when they have left school.