Sentence examples for catching and holding from inspiring English sources

Expansion was about catching and holding ever more strings.

Their jaws are equipped with fanglike teeth for catching and holding prey.

Fly-pollinated flowers have often developed traps for catching and holding unadapted visitors.

Yet I insist: there was a time when Rourke demanded to be looked at, catching and holding your eye no less grippingly than the young De Niro.

And then she also wrote those worthwhile Cazalet books, catching and holding for our attention some truth about the milieu of her childhood and youth.

From the moment the performers step out, catching and holding the gaze of the audience members, it's as if they're making a pact: "We're all in this together, right?" This sense of unity is furthered but complicated by a chanted text following a narrator's meandering thoughts: whether to buy peaches, the tyranny of real estate, the often theoretical terrors of war and loneliness.

"We were a little passive, just catching the ball and holding it above our head instead of looking to attack the zone.

Begin by glancing up at him/her, catching their eye and holding it for a second or two.

What the company said was a problem with the driver's side floor mat catching the gas pedal and holding it open, the company looked bad when the government said the problem stemmed from the throttle-by-wire system.

Stress due to catching adult birds was minimized by doing so in a darkened room using torchlight, with up to three persons catching simultaneously to minimize the time taken, and holding birds in cloth bags for the shortest possible time.

Pope's command seemed total and precocious, catching crosses out of goal above mêlées with absolute sureness and holding shots with first-time adhesion.