1.   Best of all is networking, talking with people you already know and using contacts to line up interviews.

2.   After leaving the army, the prince used his contacts to build an advertising career, jetting between London, New York, and Rio de Janeiro.

3.   After leaving public life, he used his contacts to prosper at the intersection of politics and business.

4.   Davey, who had coached at clinics in Turkey and had befriended a local coach, used that contact to help Garnett get a job in that country.

5.   He has used his contacts in the White House and the Pentagon to speed up U.S.-India military collaborations.

6.   He agreed to use his contacts in the industry to help attract funds for the redevelopment of Orchard Park.

7.   He delivered the Dayton Daily News and used his contacts with newspaper subscribers to drum up such jobs as raking leaves.

8.   I talked to the phone programmer and found that the contacts were used to program the phone.

9.   Its contacts are used in conjunction with connectors.

10.   Knight has become a part of the investigation into Democratic fund-raising practices because of questions whether he used government contacts to help clients.