How to Use communication in a Sentence

communication

noun
  • There was a breakdown in communication between members of the group.
  • You don't talk to him, he talks at you. You scream and shout at each other, but there's no communication.
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth,
  • He majored in communications in college.
  • He is studying insect communication.
  • Communications is a growing industry.
  • Tsosie said that the next communication from the bank was that the funds had run out.
    Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 6 June 2020
  • The two sides had been in communication for months about the event.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Our communication wasn’t that great in the first half, and that’s kind of what sparked us.
    Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 16 May 2018
  • But both men agreed on the need to keep lines of communication open.
    Selina Wang, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The captains come out for the pre-game coin-toss and aid with communication among the team.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Within minutes of the strike, the plant was back in communication with the grid.
    Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 31 May 2022
  • And that sort of communication has to be at an all-time high.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • And that's kind of where it's been as far as my communication with him.
    Kristie Rieken, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Bauer said there has been no communication from the league to either him or the Dodgers since the report.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • To keep them with you for a while, work to maintain a healthy give and take in any communication between the two of you.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • For Howard, communication is a point of pride as a coach.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The style of communication throughout the episode is visual via a screen, not by phone.
    Mike Bloom, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Jones felt the communication with the sideline was good.
    Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
  • His last communication with Burnett was a note in the mail.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Dear Amy: My wife had a male friend who moved away many years ago and broke off all communication with her.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2021
  • This gut and brain communication is known as the gut-brain axis.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Castillo said communication must have failed at some step of the process.
    Laurel Weibezahn, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Even that has shifted us in a weird way in our communication.
    Ashley Hume, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The chain of command, and lines of communication, will be different from project to project.
    Bob Verini, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Sanders thinks that communication by the city could solve a lot of problems, and added his football team gives people a sense of hope.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In so many ways Tess has taught me about communication.
    Keith Murphy, EW.com, 13 May 2022
  • The communication with Pittman and Kennedy is a big deal to Anderson.
    Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2022
  • So much of the communication was a visual exchange, and that was so lovely.
    Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The order does require agencies to get approval from the White House prior to disseminating external communications, Time magazine reports.
    Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Health officials have a sense of duty to convey responsible, empirical, and scientific communication to the public, and even more so after Trump’s early action to freeze federal agencies from doing the same.
    Dr. Ashwin Vasan, TIME, 29 Jan. 2025

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