Sentence examples for catch up when from inspiring English sources

Go to bed nice and early because you're playing catch up when you're my age.

Would be great to catch up when the dust has settled, Jeremy".

"It's not easy to catch up when you are this far behind in terms of affordable housing".

She was about to catch up when a middle-aged woman sauntered by with three toy dogs on a leash beside her.

(It took another three years for the United States to catch up, when an unfortunate pensioner was mown down by a horseless taxicab in New York).

The Daughters ends with Lulu about to decamp for two weeks to Italy – where she will once again perform – leaving her daughter behind: "Kara will stay behind and learn things and I will scramble to catch up when I return.

Nonsubscribers may also find themselves playing catch-up when news breaks.

Women are playing catch-up when it comes to reaching senior well-paid positions," she said.

Rival panellist Cheryl Cole will have to play catch-up when her much-discussed biography comes out next month.

Even after 25 years of learning the basics, most adults are still playing catch-up when it comes to conversing in emoticon-ese.

America had been slow to latch on to The Beatles – EMI's Stateside partner Capitol had passed on the opportunity to release their early singles, which consequently appeared on the independent Vee-Jay – and were suddenly forced to play catch-up when "I Want to Hold Your Hand" catapulted the group into the American limelight in 1964.