CATCHING in a Sentence
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328 example sentences for CATCHING, such as:
1. It is used for catching turns with the whale line.
2. He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
3. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
4. Getting your feet wet disposes you to catching cold.
5. If you run after two heares, you will catch neither.
2. He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
3. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
4. Getting your feet wet disposes you to catching cold.
5. If you run after two heares, you will catch neither.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CATCHING
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catching
n. becoming infected
a. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Scarlett obeyed, bracing herself and catching firm hold of one of the bedposts.
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.
3 Years ago, Mrs. Burr had said she was "fast" after catching her kissing her son Willie at one of the Wilkes' house parties.
4 She's going to faint, thought Scarlett, leaping to her feet and catching her arm.
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.
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.
7 "It's you who are the coward," he repeated, catching her hands in his.
8 Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment.
9 Well, well; I don't know what it is, but the Lord keep me from catching it.
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.
11 It is used for catching turns with the whale line.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Example Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1 That is the appeal in catching them I think, it is amaizing to pull something so massive out of muddy water, that few people actually see.
2 So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.
3 I'm not getting any younger, and seriously, I feel the excesses of my decadent life slowly catching up with me.
4 And she's such a capital one for catching mice you can't think!
5 Over the last decade it has become increasingly apparent that a person's genetic makeup has a strong influence on the likelihood of them catching HIV.
6 All that stuff about catching giant fish was just a bit of poetic licence.
7 Getting your feet wet disposes you to catching cold.
8 Instead of catching fish,all he fished out was an old boot.
9 If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
10 If you run after two heares, you will catch neither.
11 She was worried that she'd arrive too late to catch the last bus home.
12 The child pulled at his sleeve to catch his attention.
13 After the play had finished, we lingered for a while in the bar hoping to catch sight of the actors.
14 He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
15 He's lagging behind a bit - I think we'd better wait for him to catch us up.