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218 examples of Catches in a sentence

And because Stella is traveling away from it, by the time the light catches up to her, over 7 total years will have passed for Terra, and over 4 for Stella.
We reasoned that protecting just a small area of fishing ground for just a few months might lead to dramatic increases in catches, enough to make a difference to this community's bottom line in a time frame that might just be acceptable.
Catches soared, with men and women landing more and bigger octopus than anyone had seen for years.
Spurred on by rising catches, leaders from Andavadoaka joined force with two dozen neighboring communities to establish a vast conservation area along dozens of miles of coastline.
From Tanzania to Timor-Leste, from India to Indonesia, we're seeing the same story unfold: that when we design it right, marine conservation reaps dividends that go far beyond protecting nature, improving catches and driving waves of social change along entire coastlines, strengthening confidence, cooperation and the resilience of communities to face the injustice of poverty and climate change.
Finally catches up to itself, it advances.
Most years, Quexo’s village catches more than enough fish.
So it's kind of like if your house catches on fire.
And he said, "Doesn't matter if a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice."
And he lives in the sand, and he catches things that go by overhead.
It flips its body 180 degrees and it swings its leg between the two legs and catches the fall.
Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) catches up with Danny Ocean and his team and demands that they repay the money that they stole from him (in Oceans 11) plus interest.
The Kindred opens to shots of a Porsche racing along a highway, it catches up with an old pick-up truck and gets held up.
An hulking alien beastie crash-lands on Earth and soon wrecks havoc upon the populace first using his laser ray gun to dissolve into dust almost every human he catches sight off (that is when his aim isn't terribly off) and later his bare claws with which he likes to rip out and eat human spleen!
A team of amateur journalists and tree-huggers catches wind of a secret government project, Project Carnivore, on a remote South Pacific island.
The sub, called the Seaview, is on its maiden run when all hell breaks loose: the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire and the Seaview must launch a missile into the belt by a certain time or the world will go down in global warming flames!
Instead it's just a bland, plodding and meandering stiff that never catches fire or becomes even remotely amusing in a so-shoddy-it's-smoking sort of way.
Mrs. Tingle comes along, catches Holmes, the classmate guy and her best friend with the sample of her final exam.
At a party, when he's lighting his cigarette, the studio boss throws a high alcohol content drink in his face, and he catches fire.
The older sister catches up to her younger sibling several times but the latter manages to escape and go on the run again.
A lot of the elements of the story are consistent between the book and the movie, but Dr. Ross' character goes from a creatively written character who lives for money and ends up causing the volcanic eruption with her greed to a heart-on-her-sleeve damsel in distress who won't do anything if she even catches the slightest hint that it might be less than noble.
She is strong and courageous but shies away from Kester Woodseaves, a traveling weaver who catches her eye.
This catches a lot of flack because it seems at first glance like, well, a bad movie, but it's so kooky that you can't help but be amused.
Overall its fun, and as a person from Cape Cod, it catches the feeling of an 80s Cape Cod summer very effectively.
I think after a minute of watching the credits roll he just sort of whimpered "Oh dude....." It goes from dumb 80's teen sex comedy to nihilistic realism so quickly that it catches you off guard.
I still find it a pleasant and romantic film which catches a time which has been lost forever.
Briefly before this, the husband catches a TV show called "Sawing for Teens" with the stars sawing something and the husband getting his own saw.
Watch it if it comes on TV, rent it if you are bored and nothing else catches your eye, but don't buy it unless it is on special.
Certainly when I saw this movie at HBO, I was bit erratic in following the plot, but it catches my attention when seeing Dustin Hoffman in it.
Great opening title sequence that really catches the mood of 1959 New York while Johnny Mathis sings the "Best of Everything" theme song in an echo chamber surrounded by a chorus of violins and another chorus of background screamers.
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