Sentence examples for before they catch on from inspiring English sources

"Yes, my ideas do sometimes have a slow burn of a decade or two before they catch on," he admits.Though he is now 60, Mr Lovins shows no signs of slowing down.

We've got about another two years of that before they catch on that it's really Dad.

"It's like when you're in school and have a substitute teacher: you're going to push the envelope and see how much you can get away with before they catch on and start asserting their authority," Jaguars offensive lineman Uche Nwaneri said.

But Jack Sagen, a Jetro sales and marketing director, said he recently lost $500 buying several dozen cases of 15-cent bags of sliced apples that perished before they could catch on with the stores.

He noted that Mr. Huntley and Mr. Brinkley suffered through months of wretched ratings before they began to catch on with viewers.

This is never going to catch on," one naysayer grumbled before switching to beer.

We better sell before prospective buyers catch on to the reality.

The first ones served German urbanites in the mid 1800s before spreading all over Europe, where they caught on among rural populations who lived far from traditional financial institutions.

"We could tell about Pokémon before it caught on," says Stanley Wong, Yahoo's data-mining manager.

Nixon presided over a corrupt administration and violated numerous laws before Republicans caught on and joined Democrats in forcing the only presidential resignation in American history.

She complained repeatedly before the company caught on, said Lorenz, 55.