How to Use human contact in a Sentence

human contact

noun
  • Unlike feral cats, which live in colonies, and avoid human contact, stray cats often hang out near homes.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • From the snow leopard to the pangolin, there are many animals that evade human contact.
    — Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025
  • Most feral cats avoid human contact and are often most active after dusk.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Nobody could accuse Domenjó of a lack of human contact.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • These days, like many other vocations out there, there is less human contact in the voice over industry.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • The disease spreads through human contact, care-giving, and burial practices.
    — Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • 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
  • Snakes are relatively shy creatures that tend to avoid human contact and mostly keep to themselves.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Scammers fill a void of human contact, especially for older adults.
    — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The elephants were gradually weaned off the goat milk and human contact sharply limited.
    — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The team also noted that patients receiving prayer had human contact, while the music control group did not.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
  • 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
  • Months of close human contact during the most formative window of his development.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most of this ecosystem has remained virtually unchanged by human contact.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • The 11 men and three women describe getting little to no mental health treatment, and almost no human contact.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But there were still parallels in terms of isolation, not going to school or work, and the risk of human contact beyond the bubble of one’s family.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Unlike vultures, who often avoid human contact, feral dogs can be aggressive and carry diseases.
    — Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Advocates say the program makes the dogs more suitable for adoption by providing human contact and healthy exercise.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • The tension isn't between automation and human contact.
    — Cindy Rodriguez Constable, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Automation has squeezed human contact out of hiring, which has pushed applicants to seek any path to a live hiring manager, no matter the means.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • No human contact with the animal has been reported, and police said the case was likely an isolated incident.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Hiding in dark places, scuttling in the daylight, allergic to real, authentic human contact.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That mix of data and human contact gives Castle Rock a sharper identity than a clinic built around one-off visits and quick scripts.
    — Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • These workers also saw a 72% increase in the likelihood of spending their entire day without any human contact.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 June 2026
  • 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

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