Sentence examples for at first catch from inspiring English sources

The opium, like the generals' efforts at image-enhancement, did not, at first, catch fire.

But clients have started asking him a question that at first caught him off guard: How do I know I own what you tell me I own?

"Peanuts" grew slowly at first; caught on hugely in the '60s, when almost by accident it seemed to speak to everyone who was experiencing the generation gap; and then almost drowned in a licensing binge and flood of tchotchkes.

Narrated by Eric Bogosian, "Khachaturian" is an account of a talented idealist who was at first caught up in the excitement and potential of the Communist revolution but found himself labeled a bourgeois formalist with the rise of Stalin and his oppressive aesthetic of socialist realism.

So Ellick's "fade" comment at first caught me off guard, which I'm guessing he saw in my face.

WHEN tasting rooms at wineries first caught on, people interested in wine heard a single message: free wine!

Police struggled at first to catch the arsonist.

Ask a friend or family member to stand in front of you at first to catch your legs and hold you straight.

In fact, it was Weissman's work at Epiphany that first caught Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton's eye.

It wasn't so much the music at first which caught the public eye (their first single, Love Me Do, barely scraped into the Top 20), but rather their bizarrely long hair.

However, the simulations show that fishing down the food web through fisheries that target small pelagic planktivorous fishes, while at first increasing catches in intensively exploited regions, has the potential of decreasing yields, by interrupting major energy pathways to exploited, high-trophic level species.