How to Use human contact in a Sentence

human contact

noun
  • There’s little to no human contact at all, in most cases.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Ford and Wardlow built not just a friendship, but a deep connection in a place where the only human contact comes when the guards handcuff you.
    Longreads, 8 Sep. 2023
  • For example, Nipah virus emerged in Malaysia from human contact with infected pigs, which had picked up the virus from fruit bats.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2015
  • Like the steady drip-drip-drip of water on stone, which over millenniums reduces a monolith to sand, human contact will have its way.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • These days, like many other vocations out there, there is less human contact in the voice over industry.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • In fact, pit bulls chained up in yards often suffer emotionally because of the lack of human contact.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • The elephants were gradually weaned off the goat milk and human contact sharply limited.
    Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • Most feral cats avoid human contact and are often most active after dusk.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2024
  • What the bill does require in those cases is that this person is provided human contact and out of cell time in a safe and appropriate manner.
    Chris Holden, Orange County Register, 21 July 2024
  • Snakes are relatively shy creatures that tend to avoid human contact and mostly keep to themselves.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The same material that keeps kids in school and promotes play in its purest form is also the last point of friction — indeed, the last vestige of human contact — in a world of free shipping and no-fault returns.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In contrast with truly feral cats, which shun close human contact, cats that have run away or have been abandoned after losing their fear of people are known as friendlies.
    Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • In the antebellum South, the slaves who bent over rows of cotton shouted their songs responsively, because that was the only way to launch the comfort of human contact across an open field.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
  • By July, 2021, Americans were nearly twice as likely to think that the pandemic was caused by a lab leak than by human contact with animals.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Voters also were permitted to use drop boxes to turn in their ballots without human contact.
    Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
  • That's not possible with North Atlantic right whales, which are so stressed from human activity that any direct human contact could just make things worse.
    Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Scammers fill a void of human contact, especially for older adults.
    Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • My only human contact came from nurses in full-body P.P.E., who checked my vitals, and skeleton crews of officers—the ones who weren’t sick themselves—who brought us intermittent meals.
    Joe Garcia, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The anonymity of the channels and the distance from actual human contact make social media platforms ideal for this level of antisemitic hate.
    Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
  • She was briefly forced to halt the challenge for eight days after about 300 days due to a technical issue, but stayed alone in a tent without human contact during that time, Spain's EFE news agency later reported.
    Victoria Bisset, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
  • She was briefly forced to halt the challenge for eight days after about 300 days due to a technical issue, but stayed alone in a tent without human contact during that time, Spain’s EFE news agency later reported.
    Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Too much direct human contact on the ground can disrupt or tamper with an environment and which can potentially lead to lasting damage.
    Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Many, like Mara Poggi, 51, a mother of two who also cares for her 71-year-old mother who suffers from dementia, were not persuaded that a robot could be a substitute for human contact.
    Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Being a patient strips the narrator of any personal agency, which is made all the more acute because of the pandemic-era restrictions that limited human contact.
    Samantha Dunn, Orange County Register, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The squishy mud that gives wading birds the otherworldly appearance of walking on water in the shallows of Florida Bay also gives the flamingos a measure of protection from human contact.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Sometimes the meal deliveries offer the only human contact for these homebound seniors, who otherwise could be forgotten if not for the staff and volunteers.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This remoteness means that solitude is easy to find and wildlife live in a setting largely removed from human contact, giving travelers a true wilderness experience.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The large cats are typically more interested in avoiding human contact and typically seek deer as prey.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Cool but not emotionally aloof, Hall’s sharp, tightly wound performance implies a personality given to tension at the best of times, in need of close human contact to draw out her happiness.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • Unlike vultures, who often avoid human contact, feral dogs can be aggressive and carry diseases.
    Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024

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