How to Use make a/the connection in a Sentence
make a/the connection
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His roommate knew her brother and helped make the connection.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
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To evoke a sense of touch and feeling is a visceral way to make a connection.
—Katherine Hu, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
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And somehow our fire dancer, who was very talented, did not make the connection.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024
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When a new woman starts working at your company, reach out to her and make a connection.
—Rajeev Shroff, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
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To him, teachers have to make a connection with every student in the room, every day.
—Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2023
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Skowronek isn’t the first to make the connection between manillas and the Benin Bronzes.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
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De La Tour is inviting us to make a connection between the two pairings of head and hand.
—Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
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The other losers say goodbye for the evening – a stressful thought for the women who still haven't had the time to make a connection with him.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
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In order to make a connection with your customers, tell your personal story.
—Matt Campbell, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2022
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Elio does make a connection with Glordon, and finds friendship in him, what was the key to that dynamic?
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 June 2025
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At the end of the workshop, students can taste different styles of beer and make a connection from brewing to the final product.
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
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Your choice to make a connection and decide about him for yourself was valid and fair and completely understandable.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
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Ixer was unable to make a connection between the shoebox fragments and any specific rocks in Wales.
—Simon Akam, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
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Last season, Aliana was full of insecurities and struggled to make a connection.
—Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2021
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To connect, simply choose a region, and Opera VPN will make the connection.
—PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2023
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While organizers try to be mindful with the distance when pairing correspondents, right now the goal is just to make a connection.
—Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 July 2021
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Meeting him as a rookie, giving me confidence, giving me believe from him watching my game, then just being able to off the field make a connection.
—Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2022
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In an effort to make a connection, David reached over Sheila’s lap to challenge Jhonreil to a game of hand slapping and thumb war.
—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
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Mounting evidence appears to make a connection between a 2011 triple homicide and one of the bombers.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2022
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The altered state heightens his already volatile nature, leading him to make a connection between graffiti and the rock art of his ancestry.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
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Meanwhile James and Tasha are trying to make a connection with each other to make a strong alliance outside of their original shows.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 July 2022
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Under the agreement, City Net teams have two to three weeks to make a connection before Caltrans sends in workers to clean up an area.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
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Book fans may make a connection to the Eloise children's books series written by Kay Thompson in the '50s.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 24 May 2024
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Bus service for some Amtrak trains is available to make the connection between the stations at Oceanside and Irvine.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2023
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The holds these senators are using make a connection between the agencies the senators want to take an action and the agencies’ nominees.
—Brooks D. Simpson, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
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But Zijlstra, who was not involved with the new study, was the first to make the connection to SN 1181.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
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Some of the details of Timberlake Hall are said to make a connection between it and the immediate area’s history as a rail hub.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
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Go out with them socially, need to make a connection, not a business relationship (125, Ecuador).
—Martin Rand, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
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Police had to rely on genealogy to make the connection, because the lawyer wasn’t in any DNA database.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
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Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has struggled to make a connection with his new receivers and the Packers defense has been struggling.
—Catena Media, al, 19 Dec. 2022
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