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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thriving due to the abandonment of service by conventional retailers, Amazon has always meant no human contact.
    Scott Burns, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • For a long time, these potent imaginary friendships — inevitably descending into self-loathing, jealousy and a sado-masochistic inability to look away — replaced all human contact.
    Emerald Fennell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, advocates said the bill would require corrections officials to find alternatives to isolation that could involve placing someone in a unit that provides more meaningful human contact and access to services.
    Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Innovations included automating some call center functions for customers who didn’t require human contact for full service.
    Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Using automation to optimize your marketing efforts and manage leads isn’t about replacing human contact.
    Denis Sinelnikov, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Could chatbots someday partially replace human contact for isolated seniors?
    WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Technology has elevated-not minimized- the importance of humanizing the workplace, human contact, and empathy.
    Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • According to Vonk, close human contact instead of domestication was associated more closely with the cats’ ability to discriminate between human voices.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Feb. 2024

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