Sentence examples for caught on when from inspiring English sources

People couldn't afford that, but his idea caught on: when glass got cheaper, Victorians bought small Wardian cases in neo-Gothic, twig and other whimsical styles to adorn their salons.

The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, said the investor caught on when she called Balthazar and was informed that Mr. Davis had nothing do with the establishment.

As legend has it, the tie caught on when Croatian soldiers traveled to Paris to fight in the Thirty Years' War, 1618 to 1648.

But the book's message of the importance of girls' education caught on when women's book clubs, church groups and high schools began snapping up the less expensive paperback published in January 2007.

The tested concept of brand collaboration between small shops and large corporations caught on when James Jebbia, the founder of the iconic New York shop Supreme, wanted to release a sneaker in the early nineties.

Because the students were familiar with the basic principles — finding the least common multiple of the denominators, rewriting each number as an equivalent fraction, adding the numerators, finding the greatest common factor, then reducing the final answer — they quickly caught on when she asked them to add three fractions.

By contrast, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs caught on quickly when his company was confronted by angry consumers in September.

Though not a Twitter user, Fuld caught on quickly: When reporters asked him the next day why he could not stop the rain that was causing a rainout, Fuld quipped: "This is me, washing my planet".

But the show caught on like wildfire when White moved it along the King's Road to a broken-down cinema, the Chelsea Classic.

If you have more than one hamster, separate them when training one then see if the second hamster will catch on when watching the first hamster perform the tricks.

It took a while to catch on when she first started the program, five years ago, she said.