Examples of eye contact in a Sentence
He maintained eye contact with me throughout the conversation.
The speaker made eye contact with audience members.
The jury avoided eye contact with the defendant as the verdict was read.
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Beloved actor Ron Perlman fully leans into trying to make the contestants fail this task by forcing eye contact, asking them polite questions, rebuking their bad manners in ignoring him, and even doggedly getting into their personal space.
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Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
Do not make eye contact with it either.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 14 June 2026
The consequences are showing up in classrooms, on college campuses, and increasingly in entry-level workplaces, where managers report that young hires struggle with everything from making eye contact during a conversation to composing a coherent professional email.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The formal obligation to bow or curtsy will force targets to bend a knee and break eye contact—a perfect opening for the President to place something distracting like a Twix bar on their heads.
—Dahlia Gallin Ramirez, New Yorker, 9 June 2026
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Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
Do not make eye contact with it either.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 14 June 2026
The consequences are showing up in classrooms, on college campuses, and increasingly in entry-level workplaces, where managers report that young hires struggle with everything from making eye contact during a conversation to composing a coherent professional email.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The formal obligation to bow or curtsy will force targets to bend a knee and break eye contact—a perfect opening for the President to place something distracting like a Twix bar on their heads.
—Dahlia Gallin Ramirez, New Yorker, 9 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for eye contact
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“Eye contact.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20contact. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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