Sentence examples for catching a word from inspiring English sources

As a Lib Dem, I often found myself disagreeing with him – sometimes in person, catching a word with him as he snatched a fag outside a policy committee meeting – but I identified with him, as a human being in the Westminster quagmire, as so many people did.

Often it's possible to understand just by catching a couple of words and seeing the gestures.

I'm watching her try to lip sync along but her English is rocky so she's only catching a small portion of the words.

In other words, they are catching a wave: Internet service providers, Chinese portals, photo-sharing sites and Google (see table).

Héritier speaks softly, but the people around us, shrewd Parisians catching a whiff of the air du temps, strained after her every word with as much attention as they read their menus.

"Everything winds up loose threads and dead ends — T's remain uncrossed, I's remain undotted, words remain unsaid, and pictures remain unfinished," he says, after catching a glimpse of Dumont years later, during the film's epilogue.

A few years later we were complaining about those green squiggles plaguing our Word documents, harping on our "wordiness" and "use of contractions" but never once catching a dangling participle or a malaproprism.

I remember catching a pass.

Or perhaps he was catching a flight.

Mr. Alm was catching a sunburn.

It's like catching a falling knife.