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01. I tried to phone her, but wasn't able to [contact] her.
02. In the culture of Zambia, direct eye [contact] with members of the opposite sex is avoided.
03. Please feel free to [contact] me if you have any more questions.
04. This soap is quite strong. Avoid [contact] with the eyes.
05. The control tower lost [contact] with the pilot just before the plane crashed.
06. I have a couple of [contacts] in the government who may be able to help you get a visa.
07. The President and the Prime Minister have been in regular [contact] since the problems began.
08. She lost [contact] with her father after he and her mother split up.
09. I was able to [contact] both John and Susan, so they will be at the meeting.
10. The old woman claims to have made [contact] with beings living on another planet.
11. Like human babies, infant chimpanzees need affectionate physical [contact] for healthy development.
12. In the culture of the Côte d'Ivoire, eye [contact] is usually avoided, especially between a father and child.
13. Throughout the world, frogs are dying from pollution because their skin absorbs everything that they come in [contact] with.
14. Writer Sonia Sanchez once said, "I write to keep in [contact] with our ancestors, and to spread truth to people."
15. Bill Watterson once wrote, "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to [contact] us."
16. Carl Jung once suggested that the meeting of two personalities is like the [contact] of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once stated that the mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in [contact] with other minds.
18. When giving a presentation, it is important to make eye [contact] with your entire audience.
19. About 65% of the world's population have no regular [contact] with newspapers, television, radio or telephones.
20. The name of the victim cannot be released until his family has been [contacted].
21. I will be out of the office on holiday for the week, and I will not be [contactable] for any reason whatsoever.
22. I've tried [contacting] Manesh a number of times, but he's always out of his office.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • contact — [ kɔ̃takt ] n. m. • 1586; didact. av. XIXe; lat. contactus, rac. tangere « toucher » → tact 1 ♦ Position, état relatif de corps qui se touchent. Contact fugitif, prolongé. Certaines maladies se communiquent par contact direct. ⇒ contagieux.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Contact FM — Contact (radio) Création 1982 Propriétaire Contact Groupe Slogan « Enjoy Your Life ! » Langue Français Pays …   Wikipédia en Français

  • contact — con‧tact [ˈkɒntækt ǁ ˈkɑːn ] noun [countable] a person you know who may be able to help or advise you, especially because of the work they do: • He has a lot of contacts in the media. • There are some excellent opportunities around, if you ask… …   Financial and business terms

  • contact — CONTÁCT, contacte, s.n. 1. Atingere directă, nemijlocită între două corpuri, două forţe, două energii etc. ♢ expr. În contact cu... = în nemijlocită apropiere de..., în legătură strânsă cu... ♦ (concr.) Piesă care serveşte la stabilirea unui… …   Dicționar Român

  • Contact — (englisch für Kontakt) steht für: Contact!, Album der italienischen Band Eiffel 65 Contact (Band), österreichisches Popduo Contact (Computerspiel), Videospiel für Nintendo DS Contact (Legespiel), Kinderspiel von Ken Garland Contact (Roman), Roman …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Contact FM — City of license Hamilton Broadcast area Hamilton Worldwide (Internet) Frequency 88.1 MHz First air date 1976 Format Student radio …   Wikipedia

  • contact — n Contact, touch mean the state or fact of coming into direct connection or close association with someone or something. Contact implies the mutual relation between two bodies that impinge upon each other {the tangent at its point of contact with …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • contact — [kän′takt΄; ] for v. [, ] occas. [ kən takt′] n. [L contactus, pp. of contingere, to touch, seize < com , together + tangere, to touch: see TACT] 1. the act or state of touching or meeting [two surfaces in contact] 2. the state or fact of… …   English World dictionary

  • Contact 94 — was a radio station that broadcast from France to the Channel Islands between 1988 and 1991.[1] See also Channel 103 BBC Radio Jersey Island FM BBC Radio Guernsey References ^ Contact 94 Reunion September 2008, Paul Easton Flickr Page …   Wikipedia

  • Contact — Con tact (k[o^]n t[a^]kt), n. [L. contactus, fr. contingere, tactum, to touch on all sides. See {Contingent}.] 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • contact — (n.) 1620s, action of touching, from L. contactus a touching, from pp. of contingere to touch, seize, from com together (see COM (Cf. com )) + tangere to touch (see TANGENT (Cf. tangent)). Figurative sense of connection, communication …   Etymology dictionary

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