How to Use connect in a Sentence

connect

verb

• The bedroom connects to the kitchen.
• Can you connect the hose to the sprinkler?
• The two bones connect at the elbow.
• Connect the cable to the battery.
• A hallway connects the two rooms.
• The hose connects easily to the sprinkler.
• A common theme connects the stories.
• It's the major highway connecting the two towns.
• I never connected you with that group of people.
• There's no evidence connecting the company directly to the scandal.
• There were a lot of different ways to express and connect, but there were still a lot of frustrations.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2023
• Mentoring or volunteering can help connect older adults with new people.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 23 Feb. 2023
• Her work is especially focused on helping individuals divest from a one-size-fits-all approach to health and connect with their unique needs.
  — Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• The building is a place where homeless people can have mail delivered, do their laundry, charge phones, store items and meet with case workers who can connect them with shelter or housing.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
• As in that 1995 Julie Delpy-Ethan Hawke film, two characters meet and connect over the course of one night.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
• This recall follows a deadly listeria outbreak connected to recalled Boar’s Head deli meat that is the nation’s largest in more than a decade.
  — Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
• Researchers try to set up barriers between trees so that fungal hyphae and roots can’t connect them, leaving only the soil pathway as a possible means of transmission.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2023
• Many of the builders surveyed predicted that the homes of the future will be more open and connected to community and intergenerational living.
  — Lauren Gallow, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
• Indigenous communities have used psilocybin as a tool to connect with the natural world and the spiritual realm for millennia.
  — Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• Community leaders say such individuals are often best equipped to reach and connect with people who are considered at high risk of committing violent crime.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• Spencer Rattler connected on a 32-yard completion on his first snap, but then misread coverage and nearly had a pass intercepted two plays later.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
• Over the course of a scheming, incessantly awkward week in La La Land, Flex connects with an army of celebrities and power brokers who might make his dreams come true.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
• The galley kitchen connects the staff quarters to the rest of the house.
  — Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 30 Dec. 2018
• And that’s the only place in the world that you’re not connected is in the sky.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 June 2023
• The whole show just did not connect with how it was billed.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• The brand of milk shown in the photo was not connected with the study.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2024
• It’s about exploring the space and all the things that connect through me.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
• But no flipping of the switch was going to connect us for the next week.
  — Danielle Braff, Houston Chronicle, 27 Dec. 2019
• The best way is to connect with an agency that's doing the work.
  — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2021
• The next step is to connect all the ideas in your scaffold to the bigger picture.
  — Cheyenne Kamran, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024