Catch

The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.

The player made an impressive catch.

Nice catch!

Good catch. I never would have remembered that.

"In that case," said Jeff, "I just thought of something else we need." He walked over to one of the stations that was selling household goods and bought a can opener. "Nice catch," said Lucy.

The kids love to play catch.

The fishermen took pictures of their catch.

The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.

Did you see his latest catch?

He's a good catch.

Mr. Alfred O'Shea, a tenorizing youth from Australia, sang several times at Queen's Hall, and may congratulate himself on being one of the ‘catches’ of the season. He sang airs from Italian and French operas, and also a number of Irish ditties—naturally, with a name like that and such an ingratiating McCormackian voice.

"Aaaugh! Just once, I wish I could be considered a catch by men younger than fifty..."

She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.

There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.

It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?

Be careful, that's a catch question.

I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.

In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.

"'Fair Enslaver!'" cried Mr. Enderby. "You must know 'Fair Enslaver:' there is not a sweeter catch than that. Come, Miss Ibbotson, begin; your sister will follow, and I—" But it so happened that Miss Ibbotson had never heard 'Fair Enslaver.'

You lie at the catch again: this is not for edification.

The common and the canon law […] lie at catch, and wait advantages one against another.

There was a good catch of rye and a good fall growth.

Fourteene miles Northward from the river Powhatan, is the river Pamaunke, which is navigable 60 or 70 myles, but with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther.

Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch / You taught me but while-ere?

One night, I remember, we sang a catch, written (words and music) by Orlo Williams, for three voices.

The phrase repeated itself like the catch of a song.

It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip.

[…] in the field he is all activity, covers an immense amount of ground, and is a sure catch.

They are sitting up straighter, breaking their arms at the catch and getting on a terrific amount of power at the catch with each stroke.

When a Scot pronounces water, better, or bottle—wa’er, be’er, or bo’le—the sound is precisely that of the catch; […].

The glottal stop or glottal catch is the sound used in English in the informal words uh-huh 'yes' and uh-uh 'no'.

the way it has been writ in, by catches, and many long intervals of interruption

We retain a catch of those pretty stories.

I hope I catch a fish.

He ran but we caught him at the exit.

The police caught the robber at a nearby casino.

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

The public[…]said that Miss Bogardus was a suffragist because she had never caught a man; that she wanted something, but it wasn't the vote.

"She caught this blanquito guy from El Condado," and you immediately know "My god, all that money."

As for Aspasia, concubinage with Pericles brought her as much honor as she could hope to claim in Athens.[…]from the moment she caught her man, this influential, unconventional woman became a lightning rod[…].

If he catches you on the chin, you'll be on the mat.

The visitors started brightly and had an early chance when Valencia's experienced captain David Albeda gifted the ball to Fernando Torres, but the striker was caught by defender Adil Rami as he threatened to shoot.

If you leave now you might catch him.

I would love to have dinner but I have to catch a plane.

Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Did anyone catch the Charlie Rose the evening before last. Did you catch it? No, nothing?

For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream. […] But it was all over in time for my daughter to catch the Nigeria v Argentina World Cup game that evening, during which she seemed to reckon everything was miles offside.

He was caught on video robbing the bank.

He was caught in the act of stealing a biscuit.

Once he caught me gazing lingeringly and eagerly at him. He turned round with that mocking air he assumed when he wanted to hide his feelings.

catch the bus

The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.

After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.

Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.

I caught her by the arm and turned her to face me.

Her aged Nourse, whose name was Glaucè hight, / Feeling her leape out of her loathed nest, / Betwixt her feeble armes her quickly keight […]

I have to stop for a moment and catch my breath

I caught some Z's on the train.

My leg was caught in a tree-root.

Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob.

His voice caught when he came to his father's name.

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

Push it in until it catches.

The engine finally caught and roared to life.

I caught my heel on the threshold.

He caught at the railing as he fell.

The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn.

Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.

The seeds caught and grew.

If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.

When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file.

I will throw you the ball, and you catch it.

Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth.

she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself,[…].

Townsend hit 29 before he was caught by Wilson.

He caught the last three innings.

You're going to catch a beating if they find out.

The sunlight caught the leaves and the trees turned to gold.

Her hair was caught by the light breeze.

Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week.

Does the sedition catch from man to man?

He accosted Mrs. Browne very civilly, told her his wife was very ill, and said he was sadly troubled to get a white woman to nurse her: "For," said he, "Mrs. Simpson has set it abroad that her fever is catching."

The bucket catches water from the downspout.

The trees caught quickly in the dry wind.

the sails caught and filled, and the boat jumped to life beneath us.

And the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s account of the Grand Pas Classique from “Paquita” […] exemplified the spectacular czarist ideal of ballet that has long since became widely accepted as “classical ballet.” […] It catches an American athleticism and energetic team spirit that still seem to smash European notions of ballet classicism, as does its dancers’ selfless manner and their practicelike costumes.

She finally caught the mood of the occasion.

And the next thing I knew, I had caught feelings for her.

He caught a bullet in the back of the head last year.

The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.

Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do.

Did you catch his name?

Did you catch the way she looked at him?

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

I have some free time tonight so I think I'll catch a movie.

Tom Holland: Gong Xi Fa Cai! It's Tom Holland here. // Mark Wahlberg: And I'm Mark Wahlberg. Catch us in Uncharted this Chinese New Year at GSC. // Tom Holland: Gong Xi Fa Cai!

You've really caught his determination in this sketch.

No, a far more natural beauty caught him.

He managed to catch her attention.

The enormous scarf did catch my eye.

-You made a typo. -Ah, thanks for catching that.