Use catch in a sentence
Sentences starting with catch
- Catch me at it! [5]
- Catch it? [11]
- Catch him! [10]
Sentences ending with catch
- It occurred to Venters then that Wrangle had drunk his fill, and did not seem the worse for it, and might be anything but easy to catch. [13]
- I'm for the tribute, so off with the bag and let's see your catch. [11]
- The words of the song that Miles Hendon sang here I did not catch. [5]
- In that other not-small matter--selection of the exact single word--you are hard to catch. [5]
- The 4th of May they were entertained by the chief of Paspika, who favored them with a long oration, making a foul noise and vehement in action, the purport of which they did not catch. [4]
Short sentences using catch
- Wrangle could catch you. [13]
- You'd catch it, too, Nelson. [9]
- Perdition catch all the guides. [5]
- I'll catch up soon. [13]
- Come and catch me, Carnac! [11]
- If they catch him. [10]
- They shall not catch you. [10]
- I could not catch up. [5]
- You'll see; he'll catch on. [8]
- I'm beginning to catch on. [5]
Sentences containing catch two or more times
- It is impossible to keep a hat neat if you use it to catch bumblebees and whisk 'em; to bail the water from a leaky boat; to catch minnows in; to put over honey-bees' nests, and to transport pebbles, strawberries, and hens' eggs. [4]
- I had set the law after living lecture doubles of mine a couple of times in America, and the law had not been able to catch them; others in my trade had tried to catch their impostor-doubles and had failed. [5]
- It may be that I shall not catch all the men to whom I mailed the pretended test-secret, but I shall catch the most of them, if I know Hadleyburg nature. [5]
- If the Yankees catch you--" "They won't catch me, honey," he answered, kissing her. [9]
More example sentences with the word catch in them
- The difference between your friends the criminals and me is that probably nobody will ever be able to catch me out. [11]
- I'll lay for you, my smarty; and if I catch you about that school I'll tan you good. [5]
- You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear? [5]
- His religion seemed woven all of austerity, contained no shining threads to catch my eye. [9]
- She hoped he would not catch cold. [9]
- If the steamboat would leave at midnight, we could catch the railway train at Pictou. [4]
- Anybody but pap would a waited and seen the day through, so as to catch more stuff; but that warn't pap's style. [5]
- He is at work at me now, when I catch some of these resemblances, thus: There! [6]
- I catch only words, not phrases. [5]
- Howells wrote: "I wish you could understand how unshaken you are, you old tower, in every way; your foundations are struck so deep that you will catch the sunshine of immortal years, and bask in the same light as Cervantes and Shakespeare. [5]
- But even their wisdom has its limits, and they will hang Mr. Rhodes if they ever catch him. [5]
- Always on the wing, as we were, and merely pausing a moment to catch fitful glimpses of the wonders of half a world, we could not hope to receive or retain vivid impressions of all it was our fortune to see. [5]
- A young man will catch the whole family with this flaming message, but where is that sentiment that once set the maiden heart in a flutter? [4]
- I'll tell you why I'm in this campaign: to catch Douglas now, and keep him out of the White House in 1860. [9]
- For a good while I said to myself every morning: "Now I have escaped thus far, and so the chances are just that much increased that I shall catch it this time. [5]
- In a corner, which seemed to catch the sun, was a bird-cage on a pole, sought by pigeons and doves. [11]
- The young fellows were very anxious that the artist should keep at his work; they would catch her. [4]
- Two of them were expert swimmers and were able to catch the stern of another canoe as it ran by, and reached safe water, bruised but alive. [11]
- There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise. [2]
- All they brought was notice from the English to Joan that they would presently catch her and burn her if she did not clear out now while she had a chance, and "go back to her proper trade of minding cows. [5]
- That day's catch was about $70,000 worth. [5]
- Well, I don't want to catch up with it. [9]
- I tell you"--her voice rose again, it seemed to catch the note of freedom and strength of the storm without-- "I tell you, I will still live as my heart and conscience prompt me. [11]
- The time go ver' fast, and my breath catch in my throat to see how great the stakes they play for. [11]
- He also looks upon life as a picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,--not its defects and shadows. [4]
- He couldn't catch up with these rumours, and some of his stockholders were liquidating. [9]
- Their minds catch up hints from all manner of works on all kinds of subjects. [6]
- It presented an uncompromising and rather scornful front to the sister mansions with which it had hitherto been on intimate terms, now fast degenerating into a shabby gentility, seeking covertly to catch the eye of boarders, but as yet refraining from open solicitation. [9]
- True, we saw two or three vagabonds mending their nets, but never trying to catch any thing with them. [5]
- It may be true that offences, or diseases, will come, but "woe unto him through whom they come," if we catch him in the voluntary or careless act of bringing them! [3]
- The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. [4]
- Any one who tries to catch one of the shore-crabs, so common on tropical coasts, will perceive how wary and alert they are. [1]
- And very fatiguing, too; for we had tried hard, along at first, to catch up with the guide, but had only fagged ourselves, in vain; for although he was traveling slowly he was yet able to go faster than the hampered caravan over such ground. [5]
- I stuck tight to the wall and kept mighty still, though quivery; and I wondered what them fellows would say to me if they catched me; and I tried to think what I'd better do if they did catch me. [5]
- No one comes to the house; nothing disturbs the deep repose; hardly a voice is heard; you catch the ticking of the clock in the kitchen, or the buzzing of a fly in the parlour, all over the house. [14]
- He was quick to see a bush move, to observe the flick of a branch, to catch the faintest sound of an animal origin. [11]
- The silence began to oppress the princess and she tried to catch someone's eye. [2]
- My idea was to let them get into the open between there and here, and catch them as they came. [11]
- My object was to catch this fellow as he came by. [11]
- It is important to catch this brief glimpse of the man for whom this masterpiece was written, for without it one can not fully understand the spirit in which 1601 was written, or the keen enjoyment which Mark and "Joe" derived from it. [5]
- I'm just going to catch the steamer. [4]
- He always expected to catch the legendary trout which weighed two pounds and was believed to inhabit that pool. [4]
- They probably failed to catch the guard, tumbled back, and were struck by the wheel and killed. [5]
- Jack was hurrying to catch the down-town car for the dingy office of Fletcher & Co. at an hour fixed. [4]
- I was going to catch some of them, but Jim wouldn't let me. [5]
- If you want to catch mice you must waste bacon, and if we are to tempt men into a snare we must know what their notions and ideas are, and begin by endeavoring to confuse them. [10]
- That man tried to catch me; we escaped somehow or other; and now he is trying a new way. [5]
- The latter strove to catch first Chloris, then Dorippe, then some other maiden, but ere she succeeded the chain separated, joining again behind her ere she could turn. [10]
- There's plenty of time to go up-town and get your grip and catch the afternoon train. [4]
- I've only just time to catch the Canadian Pacific three days from now, riding hard. [11]
- You just wait till I catch you out! [5]
- I said I thought it ought to be offered to anybody who would catch the elephant. [5]
- But not so thinks the paternal bishop, who waves a blessing, which I catch in the flash of the enormous emerald on his right hand. [4]
- She seems to think Faith must go with her face tied up, as if she had the toothache,--and that if she opens her mouth to the quarter the wind blows from, she will catch her "death o' cold. [6]
- But the best thing to do is to set a toad to catch the bugs. [4]
- Only think, if they should catch him! [10]
- Here and there they burst out in sudden conflagrations of vivid yellow against a background of sober or sombre color, with a so startling effect as to make a body catch his breath with the happy surprise of it. [5]
- When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone. [5]
- It being Lent, there might be a chance to catch her neglecting some detail of her religious duties. [5]
- Everybody dropped in there after five o'clock, when the duties of the day were over, with the latest news, and to catch breath before rushing into the program of the evening. [4]
- And now and then, rippling among his visions and his dreams, did he hear familiar laughter and half-forgotten voices, and did he catch fitful glimpses of the friendly faces of a bygone time? [5]
- He could see the yellow feathers of the oriole and catch the note of the whippoorwill, and from the great church near the voices of the choir came over. [11]
- As he breathed the rhythmic measures forth, and one gracious line after another fell upon those enchanted ears in that deep hush, one could catch, on every hand, half-audible ejaculations of "How lovely--how beautiful--how exquisite! [5]
- In the afternoon the returning prodigal made constant deflections from his course to see if by ascending some hillock he might not pierce the distance and catch a glimpse of his home. [5]
- They catch all the phrases of the true poet. [6]
- I maintain, on the other hand, that there are a number of live fish still swimming in it, and that every one of us has a right to see if he cannot catch some of them. [6]
- Outside the door the major-domo detained Barbara, and had a tolerably long conversation with her, of which the marquise vainly endeavoured to catch even a few words. [10]
- He burrows in the ground so that you cannot find him, and he flies away so that you cannot catch him. [4]
- If one of the company had a trick or a mannerism, I never failed to catch it. [9]
- I flew down the companion-way, looked about for him, could not find him, then returned to the deck just in time to catch a glimpse of him as he re-entered that confounded nest of rascality. [5]
- Even ladies catch the climbing mania, and are unable to throw it off. [5]
- Your grief is the best side of you, and of that you do indeed allow them to catch a glimpse; but where the pain is you carefully conceal. [10]
- I remained behind the barn a good while, asking myself how I would feel if my braver, stronger, truer comrades should catch me in my degradation. [5]
- It crawled about the bare sandy or open grassy plains of La Plata under a scorching sun, and could not fail to catch the eye of every passing creature. [1]
- You can catch the agony in the queen's face through the curling smoke. [5]
- They'll catch us that way, as they've caught others. [11]
- The supposition was, that the bird would think there was an effort to trap him, that there was a man behind, holding up these garments, and would sing, as he kept at a distance, "You can't catch me with any such double device. [4]
- He had noticed that one of those sudden fierce winds, called Southerly Busters, was sweeping down towards the craft, and would catch it when it came round sharp, as it must do. [11]
- I am convinced that influences are at work--" He broke off with a catch in his throat. [9]
- He was grateful that he had been clean-shaved that morning, and he was content to catch the citrine odour of the bergamot upon his hair. [11]
- Professor Woodlouse thought that he and his brother scholars, by lying hid and being quiet, might maybe catch a live one. [5]
- Don't forget and tell me it's Elexander before you go, and then get out by saying it's George Elexander when I catch you. [5]
- If we could suppose there was a web covering this region, spun by the most alert and busy of men to catch those less alert and more productive, here in this Chamber would sit the ingenious spiders. [4]
- As for the Sultan, one could set a trap any where and catch a dozen abler men in a night. [5]
- Their discourse ceased suddenly, for voices were audible in the emperor's apartments, and they all listened with outstretched necks and bated breath if they might catch a word or two. [10]
- It is not strange that the spurs of the man who had so lately got out of the saddle should catch in the scholastic robe of the man on the floor of the Senate. [6]
- The one yonder stop, I'll catch him--is one of my best flyers. [10]
- And as for Stephen, he often went to his office through Locust Street, which was out of his way, in the hope that he might catch a glimpse of Virginia. [9]
- It bore the stains of blood that had trickled through its joints long ago, and on one side it had a projection whereon the torturer rested his elbow comfortably and bent down his ear to catch the moanings of the sufferer perishing within. [5]
- Sellers would have something; and have not both these cautious people expressed a determination to take an interest in the Ilium mine when they catch their larks? [5]
- But the white soldiers come all together and beat drums and blow horns, and we know where they are, and so we catch 'em and kill 'em. [11]
- They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat. [5]
- But there is so much to read nowadays, so much that is really good and new, a man has the hopeless feeling he can never catch up with it all. [9]
- You are pretty smart, Lady Lawless; for I can see that, from your stand-point, it isn't always easy to catch the meaning of sayings like that. [11]
- I catch all small animals except that one; animals that merely go into the trap out of curiosity, I think, to see what the milk is there for. [5]
- I had the single-barrelled shotgun, but my idea was to catch her alive. [5]
- Lawless saw the shoulders of the watcher heave and shake once or twice, and then a voice with a deep aching trouble in it spoke; but at first he could catch no words. [11]
- If the Houyhnhnms should ever catch me, and, finding me particularly vicious and unmanageable, send a man-tamer to Rareyfy me, I'll tell you what drugs he would have to take and how he would have to use them. [6]
- Suppose some one should come, and catch him in the prince's clothes, and the prince not there to explain. [5]
- The duty of Sheriff here in Calcutta, to look out and catch those carriages which is rashly driven out by the coachman; but it is a high post in England. [5]
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