Sentence examples for catch the flies from inspiring English sources

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Maybe the steak attracts lots of flies, and the chopsticks are to catch the flies, a la Mr Miyagi?

Sure enough, the spiders could easily catch the flies under green light, but consistently underestimated their jumps under red light (which doesn't contain shorter-wavelength light, such as green and blue).

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His father, Leroy Vaughn, a high school principal and coach, used to pitch and Shirley would catch the fly balls (when she could).

"In sports, you may be the one who the goal got past, or who didn't catch the fly ball," Ms. Holder said.

He stares at me defiantly as if daring me to try to catch the fly -- a task that is frustratingly difficult.

So, like the lady who swallowed a spider to catch the fly, they have been casting around for something that likes to eat glassy-winged sharpshooters, preferably in large quantities.

McGilchrist's effort to gallop back and catch the flying Carla Hohepa in the second half revived memories of Josh Lewsey's pursuit of Jean de Villiers – across the road at Twickenham – in the not-too-distant past.

Spectator clearly interferes with the outfielder attempting to catch the fly ball.

They will weigh up their chances and dart their tongues out and catch the fly.

Linus romps, chases balls, and even jumps up to catch the flying frisbee!

Don't try to catch the fly if it's on your parents' nice crystal stemware.

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