Sentence examples for catching hold from inspiring English sources

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Huge, slanted, interlocking teeth seem perfectly shaped to catch fish, and hook-like claws would have been ideal for catching hold of slippery prey under the water.

It seems like something is catching hold, and it really is different".

Vyas, M., Müller, R. & Pogge von Strandmann, E. Antigen loss variants: catching hold of escaping foes.

Then, as if catching hold of himself, he added: "And Irish.

He did this for more than an hour, to prevent any embers catching hold.

One business owner could be seen dousing his roof with water in an attempt to prevent the fire catching hold.

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I stood there as Nonette walked into the hospital, as the glass-and-steel doors shut behind her with that movie-ending sound of metal catching, holding fast.

Enjoying the longer break afforded to the first semi-finalists, Northamptonshire's pace-off sextet of bowlers and superb catching held all but Durham's in-form opener, Keaton Jennings in check and could count themselves somewhat unfortunate to be chasing as many as 154.

The brush-fire was heading closer and closer to another shack, this time catching a hold of its wooden stilts.

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

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.

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