Sentence examples for caught his drift from inspiring English sources

Then Anzora turned to the saleswoman, who caught his drift and smirked, trying her best to stay neutral.

I looked at the four Chinese women dancing on the bar, caught his drift, and nodded over to them.

It was Martin Luther who said, "The hair is the finest ornament women can have". It was Edith Imre who more than caught his drift.

I let my boss ramble long after I caught his drift, and long after I wanted to hang up on him.

He didn't say what the motorists might do to the cyclists when they found them, but I think I caught his drift.

"We cringe to the new thought police," he added, just in case slower readers hadn't caught his drift, "like the subjects of some insane, sex-obsessed Stalinist state, compelled to wave our little rainbow flags as the 'gay pride' parade passes by".

With an accent that seemed to thicken on a need-to-seduce basis, he spoke to this reporter in a conspiratorial whisper ("I like to make small chaos"), forcing her almost to fall into his lap in order to catch his drift.

I was wondering whether to be offended by the insult - surely I don't look ancient and decrepit enough to be the grandfather of an overweight 26-year-old - when the ticket-seller addressed me in such fast colloquial Persian that, though my command of the language is better than it has any right to be after 30 years of disuse, I couldn't quite catch his drift.

He addresses the media's taking issue with Aliyun's OS running Android apps and was obviously slightly frustrated that Google's response failed to include "open handset" and "ecosystem" in the same sentence, if you catch his drift.

Liu masks his criticisms in poetry, metaphor, and subtlety, but leaves plenty of clues for anyone who wants to catch his drift.

The other characters strain to catch his mumbling drift, as does the audience, and you begin to wonder if he is making sport of those rusty Cockney voices that left American ears bleeding in the wake of "Lock, Stock".