CATCH in a Sentence

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328 example sentences for CATCH, such as:

1. Give a lark to catch a kite.
2. Set a thief to catch a thief.
3. The catin glores catch no mice.
4. I don't want her to catch me now.
5. It takes a thief to catch a thief.

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 Meanings and Examples of CATCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
catch
 v.  take hold of something, especially something that is moving through the air
 v.  find and stop a person or animal that is trying to escape
 v.  discover, see, or realize something, especially someone doing something wrong
 v.  manage to be in time to see or do something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  She drew closer under the bearskin, so that, looking sideways around his coat-sleeve, he could just catch the tip of her nose and a blown brown wave of hair.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  "Honey'll never catch anybody else if she doesn't marry Charlie," said Randa, cruel and secure in her own popularity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  A thousand incoherent thoughts shot through her mind, and she could not catch a single one to mold into a word.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She'd never, never catch another beau and everybody'd laugh fit to die at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all your little girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Sugar always caught more flies than vinegar, as Mammy often said, and she was going to catch and subdue this fly, so he could never again have her at his mercy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  I don't want her to catch me now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Uncle Henry fidgeted, coughed and did not look at her, lest he catch sight of a tear that would upset him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  If you run fast you can catch up with those soldiers and they won't let the Yankees get you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  In the flight from Atlanta, he had understood nothing except that the Yankees were after him and now he still lived in fear that the Yankees would catch him and cut him to pieces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  Now, Wade, if I ever catch you on Auntee's bed again, I'll wear you out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  Those fools would never catch the sow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  Wade was at her heels, sobbing, trying to catch her flying skirts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  Most of the families had nothing at all but the remains of their yam crops and their peanuts and such game as they could catch in the woods.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
16  He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
17  First catch your hare then cook him.
18  Just about anything could happen and we'll be there to catch it on camera when it does.
19  Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
20  Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.
21  You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
22  The catin glores catch no mice.
23  The tail does often catch the fox.
24  Give a lark to catch a kite.
25  Set a thief to catch a thief.
26  It takes a thief to catch a thief.
27  Drowning man will catch at a straw.
28  He strained his ears to catch the sound.
29  They catch the fish by spearing them.
30  The beauty of the scene made him catch his breath.