Sentence examples for I failed to catch from inspiring English sources

But when I failed to catch my ersatz competitor before reaching the office in Midtown, I was a little disappointed.

When I first read these words roughly 20 years ago I failed to catch their full significance, but over time this sentence revealed to me the American perspective on Korea.

He whipped the record at me like a Frisbee, which I failed to catch, but I picked it up and put it onto the turntable and it was a hit.

I sit, and he brusquely hands me a small list on a scrap of paper and a cup, and tells me that if I miss the cup while not touching any part of the cup's rim—I'm expected to check the box identifying if I failed to catch the beginning, middle, or end of the ejaculate.

Still, it failed to catch the eye of Seema Ahmed, until she was asked about it.

Although the novel received positive reviews, it failed to catch on with readers.

Yet, not only did I fail to catch any salmon on Pollywogs, I also did poorly with more traditional fare such as Purple Egg-Sucking Leeches, Polar Shrimp, or Babine Specials.

There was a "hidden words" round whose rationale I completely failed to catch.

Then it was back to camping on a private island — this time in Franklin Falls Pond — where I dived from rocks and ate reconstituted freeze-dried black-bean tortilla pie in lieu of that big trout that I had failed to catch and wrap in foil to roast in the low coals.

Khrushchev himself came two days later in an attempt to keep up, and drew an impressive crowd of 500,000, though his sound bite ("I love the wall") failed to catch on.

I wonder why your editors failed to catch that.