How to Use eye contact in a Sentence

eye contact

noun

• The jury avoided eye contact with the defendant as the verdict was read.
• The speaker made eye contact with audience members.
• He maintained eye contact with me throughout the conversation.
• Say his name, wait for eye contact, and give him a treat.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
• The resident tried to make eye contact with the driver, who left the scene.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• When the resident made eye contact with him, the man ran away.
  — cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
• Maintain eye contact with the shark and use a hard object or your hands to jab the nose, gills, and eyes.
  — Jennifer Earl, CBS News, 5 July 2023
• The jokes were not that funny, but a little bit of eye contact goes a long way.
  — Sofia D'uva, oregonlive, 20 July 2023
• Stand up straight to not look like prey, the park service stated, and keep eye contact with the cougar.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 23 Mar. 2024
• That requires, at the least, eye contact and a friendly smile.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• Maintain eye contact with the goose and keep your chest facing it.
  — Alex Hazlett, SELF, 24 Oct. 2022
• Trying to have a good time, Sean and Hannah shrug off the comment, and avoid eye contact.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• Was the batter ready and making eye contact with the pitcher at the eight-second mark?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2023
• Kate Middleton and Prince William, who sat in the first row, didn't make eye contact with the couple.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
• Jimin said the group would avoid making eye contact with other groups in green rooms.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• Users can now wink, blow out their cheeks or make eye contact with other users.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• Paperny sat up on the edge of the bench, grabbing the back of the pew in front, and strained to make direct eye contact with Mejia, who didn’t forget.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• This does break the eye contact with the listeners but does make up for it with a new element.
  — Merrie Spaeth, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Fleischer tried not to make eye contact with them through the windows.
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2022
• But the movie leans on a lot of these archetypes: the finance bro, the critic, the toxic chef, the couple that no longer makes eye contact with each other.
  — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• Instead, maintain eye contact with the shark and read its body language.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 3 Mar. 2024
• Val had been wearing the same set of eye contacts since before the fire - now filmy from all the tears - but the line to pick up replacements was too long.
  — Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Val had been wearing the same set of eye contacts since before the fire — now filmy from all the tears — but the line to pick up replacements was too long.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• Start by greeting each other in the evening with a moment of connection, eye contact, and a kiss.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 6 Feb. 2022
• Michael Hirt, the brother-in-law of the Rosenthals, challenged Bowers to make eye contact and paused for about 30 seconds.
  — Sabrina Souza, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• Dean looked at the jury while his attorneys questioned him and seemed to make eye contact with some.
  — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
• Depp did not make eye contact with her, and looked down or off to the side throughout her testimony.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 May 2022
• Rachel and her suitors watched in the audience, but Rachel felt like none of her men even wanted to make eye contact with her.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• Kurowski then made eye contact with a guy walking back to his car parked nearby.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
• Topics include how to talk to people in person, how to speak up in meetings, and when to make eye contact.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024