in touch

idiom

1

: in a state in which people communicate with each other especially by calling or writing to each other

We kept/stayed in touch after college.

They keep in touch by email.

—often + with

I'll be in touch with you later this week.

I have been trying to get in touch with her all day.

The childhood friends have kept in touch with each other for 40 years.

2

: in a state of being aware of what is happening, how certain people feel, etc.

—usually + with

As a professor of biology, it is important to keep/stay in touch with the latest research.

She is in touch with the voters and their needs.

3

: in a state of being aware of a particular part of one's character that is not easily noticed

—usually + with

She meditates to get in touch with her inner self.

Examples of in touch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The episode about the Yeovil match explained that Reynolds had used his celebrity connections to put Forde’s wife in touch with a top doctor, and that her prognosis was now much better. —Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024

When Gupta asked the source to put him in touch with a hit man, the source connected him with another undercover DEA agent, according to investigators. —Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024

In 2005, a teacher put Lee in touch with the famed conductor Leonard Slatkin, who agreed to look at the 14-minute composition Lee had written for his doctoral dissertation. —Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024

Amazon has been in touch with her co-authors about the possibility of adding a smell functionality to its Alexa devices. —Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024