CATCHING in a Sentence

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She heard our wagon, looked back over her shoulder, and, catching up her pail of water, started at a run for the hole in the bank.

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 Meanings and Examples of CATCHING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
catching
 a.  act of seizing or taking hold of; captivating; alluring
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Scarlett obeyed, bracing herself and catching firm hold of one of the bedposts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Ellen had stressed this at great length after catching Frank's lieutenant swinging Scarlett in the garden swing and making her squeal with laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Years ago, Mrs. Burr had said she was "fast" after catching her kissing her son Willie at one of the Wilkes' house parties.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  She's going to faint, thought Scarlett, leaping to her feet and catching her arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  I am tired," said Scarlett, rising and meeting Mammy's eyes with a childlike, helpless look, "and I'm afraid I'm catching a cold too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  One afternoon, Scarlett pulled up her buggy beside Rene Picard's pie wagon and hailed Rene and the crippled Tommy Wellburn, who was catching a ride home with his friend.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  "It's you who are the coward," he repeated, catching her hands in his.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
8  Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
9  Well, well; I don't know what it is, but the Lord keep me from catching it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
10  But presently, catching hold of the mizen shrouds, he swings himself to the deck, and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, "Dinner, Mr. Starbuck," disappears into the cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
11  It is used for catching turns with the whale line.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
12  She heard our wagon, looked back over her shoulder, and, catching up her pail of water, started at a run for the hole in the bank.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
13  Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
14  All day long he would crawl around the floor in a filthy little dress, whining and fretting; because the floor was full of drafts he was always catching cold, and snuffling because his nose ran.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  He hesitated a moment, and then catching the light and senseless form of Alice in his arms, the subtle Indian moved swiftly across the plain toward the woods.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
Example Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
16  You walk on and I'll catch up with you later.
17  The only way to catch mice is to set a trap.
18  If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
19  Like many in Russia, she blamed the country'sfailings on futile attempts to catch up with the West.
20  A drowning man will catch at a straw.
21  If you swear you will catch no fish.
22  You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
23  He who would catch fish mush not mind getting wet.
24  He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
25  First catch your hare then cook him.
26  Just about anything could happen and we'll be there to catch it on camera when it does.
27  Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
28  Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.
29  You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
30  The catin glores catch no mice.