Sentence examples for catching hold of from inspiring English sources

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

All were over now but mother and, oh, how anxious we were until we saw her come climbing up the steps, catching hold of first one tree and another until she was on the level with us all.

I knew that I had my eyes on a page, I could see the words clearly, yet it seemed to me that I had approached my mother just as Berthe tried to approach Emma, catching hold of her par le bout, les rubans de son tablier ("the ends of her apron strings").

The journalist is then seen looking out of a train window at 9-year-old Nemo as he just misses catching hold of his mother's hand.

Omega: Sometimes artists feel as if something comes through them, that the words or lyrics already exist and they are just catching hold of them.

When there's too much oxygen, the fire has a hard time catching hold of the fuel, and can make more smoke than normal.

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

With the anti-regulation fever catching hold in our nation's capital, we better be careful to protect the basic structure and fabric of our successful environmental law.

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

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.

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.