catch on

How to use catch on in a sentence

While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!

If I could catch Laura's eye—but I suppose it would hardly be decent to go just yet.

Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.

But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?

I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

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We nearly played our horses out galloping around looking for you—after we'd gone a mile or so, and you didn't catch up.

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This was about three in the afternoon, and he ordered me to start at once so as to catch you fellows as soon as possible.

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To the animal whose special finger enables him to catch the insect?

"I hope you don't want me to catch angleworms for you," Grandfather Mole told him.

"I don't care whether he has two thousand or five thousand; I am going to catch him and make him fight," said McNeil, grimly.

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