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How to use connection in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Connection means the act of connecting. Example: “The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.”

Examples of connection by meaning

nounThe act of connecting.

  • Forster employs personal relations to emphasize the importance of connection and mutual understanding2005 October 2, Mieke Schüller, Howards End by E. M. Forster: "Only Connect!", GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 2
  • Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the...

nounSexual intercourse.

  • The exact nature of the relations between the boy-wife and his protector are doubtful; they certainly have connection, but the natives repudiate with horror and disgust the idea of sodomy.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)

nounThe point at which two or more things are connected.

  • the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler

nounA transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.

  • The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
  • It is kept super-clean by helpful staff who still find the time to help customers with tight connections.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 26

nounA physical link between two things or places.

  • the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America

nounAn established communications or transportation link.

  • computers linked by a network connection
  • I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.

nounA causal relationship between two phenomena; cause and effect.

  • the connection between overeating and obesity
  • My headache has no connection with me going out last night.

nounA relationship between people or groups of people.

  • What's their connection?2020 June 30, Tikiri Herath, The Girl Who Knew Their Names: A vigilante crime suspense novel, REBEL DIVA PRESS, →ISBN

More sentences with connection

  • I couldn’t hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.From the entry break
  • After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.From the entry sleep
  • The application failed when attempting to dial the Postgres server, because there were too many open connections.From the entry dial
  • I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection.From the entry flaky
  • There was an annoying crackle during the phone call, due to poor connection.From the entry crackle
  • A disproportionate amount of local politicians have connections to the underworld.From the entry underworld
  • Nepotism can get you very far in the world if you've got the right connections.From the entry nepotism
  • My connection was so slow that I kept receiving timeouts when trying to view Web pages.From the entry timeout
  • They were arrested and charged in connection with multiple shimming incidents.From the entry shimming
  • HDMI has become the standard for audio and video connection for home theater gear.From the entry HDMI
  • A faulty connection proved to be the culprit.From the entry prove
  • A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.From the entry pipe
  • The other bus meets yours at the intersection within one minute; it's a spot connection, and you might not make it.From the entry spot
  • Identifying as a therianthrope, Alex felt a deep, instinctive connection to wolves that shaped their sense of self and community.From the entry therianthrope
  • To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots.From the entry syntagma
  • The download timed out because your Internet connection was disrupted.From the entry time out
  • Because of their connection with both homology and cohomology, chain complexes are an important topic of study in homological algebra.From the entry homology
  • Our Internet service includes a burstable connection.From the entry burstable
  • Too many tinygrams can congest a network connection.From the entry tinygram
  • The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.From the entry fellowship
  • Given a browser and active internet connection, the learner will write an example of a behavioral objective that is observable and measurable.From the entry behavioral objective
  • Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection.From the entry tenuous
  • The network sends a challenge to the mobile at each connection, and the mobile must send an SRES back to the network before it will allow access.From the entry SRES
  • Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.From the entry anterograde
  • On a through-ticket you're legally entitled to later onward travel if a delay means a missed connection, but with separate train-specific tickets the risk is yours.From the entry through-ticket
  • My lab studies the connections between population, community and ecosystem ecology in aquatic environments.2026 January 30 (last accessed), Jonathan Shurin, UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2026. From the entry mesocosm
  • “A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz.2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN. From the entry confinement
  • Meanwhile, most electricity-deprived Ethiopians will probably have to wait years for their grid connection.2025 September 8, “The promise and peril of Ethiopia's new mega-dam: It could power the region or plunge it into another conflict”, in The…. From the entry megawatt

Meaning of connection

  1. noun The act of connecting.
  2. noun Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
  3. noun Sexual intercourse.

Full definition of connection

Questions about connection in a sentence

How do you use connection in a sentence?
Connection is used as a noun. For example: “The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.”
What is a short sentence with connection?
“What's their connection?”
What does connection mean?
Connection means the act of connecting.

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