Sentence examples for initially caught from inspiring English sources

Mr. Romney's supporters, initially caught off guard, regrouped and began chanting "U.S.A".

New Zealand's travel and hospitality industries, initially caught off guard, raced to meet demand.

Stocks on Wall Street were initially caught in the downward momentum, sinking nearly 2 percent in the afternoon.

Since Ms. Hines had never directed a film, she was initially caught off guard by the offer.

Though Mr. Lewis said he was initially caught off guard, he realized Ms. Faur had developed an intimacy with her chickens.

The things that initially caught my eye ceased to be as important and quieter details, ones I wouldn't have noticed in the first days or weeks, became visible.

When I tasted the Ugli fruit, I didn't initially catch the prenyl mercaptan, but Hagen steered me.

Chanishvili explains that she and her colleagues initially catch phages in gunky places where the creatures are known to thrive: sewage water, for example.

PIKE'S PALE ALE In "The Lady Eve" (1941), one reason that a naïve explorer (Henry Fonda) initially catches the eye of a femme fatale (Barbara Stanwyck) is that he is the heir to the Pike's Pale Ale fortune.

Further, it was shown that concave surface features on the substrate initially catch aggregated proteins that are denatured by friction, thus the protein film progresses from concave to flat regions on the substrate.

Sporadic experiments with numbered shirts took place in the 1920s but the idea did not initially catch on.