Sentence examples for caught up short from inspiring English sources
Time and again, one is caught up short with an insight framed with both modesty and profoundity.
He says more than once that his Dolores imagines herself as pretty but gets caught up short by her unattractiveness in real life.
SARISSKE MICHALANY, Slovakia — Gazing out his window during morning recess on his first day at work, the principal of an elementary school here, Jaroslav Valastiak, was caught up short: all the children playing in the asphalt-covered yard were white, a strikingly monochromatic scene at a school where a majority of pupils are dark-skinned Roma.
During my California years, I played touch football as much as possible, and except for being caught up short by that coed, rarely thought about getting older.
Then technology caught up.
Robert Friedman, an analyst for Standard & Poor's, cautioned that investors "should not get caught up in short-term results".
"I don't try to get caught up in short-term thinking about the company".
But then some things happened that caught him up short.
But then I asked him the question that caught him up short.
