cat-and-mouse

Example Sentences

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“Eat Me,” directed by Caitlin Sullivan, plays cat and mouse with its audience, not wanting to give away its secrets.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Will you feel worse if you ask and he gives you a game of cat and mouse?

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

A core of Minneapolis activists is playing a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the federal agents deployed in force to the midwestern city to round up undocumented immigrants.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Federal regulators call it a growing epidemic, and stopping the thieves has become a game of cat and mouse for law enforcement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

For the Coast Guard, the Rum War was less a game of cat and mouse and more a case of a needle in a haystack.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield