Sentence examples for at once caught from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "at once caught" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something is immediately captured or seized, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The thief was at once caught by the police as he attempted to escape the scene of the crime."
Alternatives: "immediately captured" or "instantly apprehended".

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Alex at once caught a bluefish, and the guys cheered: they'd finally blooded themselves, even if it was only a seven-pounder.

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Evans has Lisa Hood finally fall behind the ensemble as she at once catches her breath and the audience's notice.

"Fish once caught at one meter long are now being taken at 10 centimeters.

But his school life was not entirely smooth, and he was once caught at school with a pop gun, Mr. Zuniga said.

"I want to do some fishing". "Fine," I said, "and stay for dinner afterward". Jeff's semiannual fishing expeditions had never been crowned with much success, except for a blackfish he once caught at age 7, which he proudly presented to me wrapped in a letter-size envelope.

"My own father was once caught at the border with a suitcase full of stuffed pigeons".

My brother recently told me that my own father was once caught at the border with a suitcase full of stuffed pigeons my grandmother had given to him.

He testified that B.M. was a "hypersexual" girl whom he had once caught masturbating at an early age.

At Sherborne school he was once caught day-dreaming during a lesson on Henry VIII and his wives.

But, although Vidal made "harsh critical remarks" about Oates at every opportunity, Parini explains, he once caught him reading a volume of her essays, and — "he admitted" — enjoying them.

In focusing on Moore's appearance Yeats was of course taking sweet revenge on the man who had once caught him memorably at Lady Gregory's Coole Park "standing lost in meditation before a white congregation of swans assembled on the lake, looking himself in his old cloak like a huge umbrella left behind by some picnic party".

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