Sentence examples for catch in hand from inspiring English sources

In London, browsing around Portobello Road antique shops, you met characters straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, walking away, eyes gleaming, a coveted catch in hand.

Whether they're dressed in iconic stubbies or have a fresh catch in hand, here are the more low-key and relatable characters of a New Zealand summer.

Even sitting within the tiny, isolated triage room -- what nurses here call the cage -- she can still feel the day bulge while cataloging the ailments of others: rib meat stuck in throat; hook caught in hand; vision left spotty after a topple from a trampoline.

Mr Kerr added: "What we've had to do is catch them in hand nets and then put them in tanks.

"It's the only gem produced from a living organism," said Mohamed Al Suwaidi, holding open a red velvet bag full of the month's catch in his hand.

When hopeful sellers were caught, substance in hand, it reliably turned out to be something else, sometimes a placebo of chuckle-worthy simplicity: ordinary mercury mixed with dye.

Prose is punctuated by photographs: little groups of smiling socialites caught cocktail in hand for a frozen moment, the light of the flash touching golden brocade, a diamond earring, the chalk-white teeth of a smiling tycoon.

In cases where visual identification was not possible, observers caught butterflies in hand nets for closer inspection.

A delivery from Harris sat up on leg stump and asked to be hit but Trott flicked off his hips and placed a simple catch in the hands of Usman Khawaja at deep square leg.

Do you have a bow and arrow that you can shoot at me that I can catch in my hands and surprise you?

A few miles out of town is Black Rock, where fishermen have for generations waded out into the Severn estuary to catch salmon in hand-held nets.