to make eye contact with someone
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Eye contact
Synonyms for "eye contact" (7 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
direct lookfocused gaze
Strong matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
gaze meetingglances
Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
mutual gazevisual contactvisual engagement
Related word relations
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More general
4 entriesMore specific
2 entriesmutual gazeprolonged gaze
Collocations
5 entriesavoid eye contactbreak eye contactdirect eye contactmaintain eye contactsustained eye contact
Inflections
1 entrieseye contacts
Derivations
1 entrieseye contact based
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
If you make the animal angry, walk slowly backwards and avoid making eye contact.
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Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
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