catch hold of
Example Sentences
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Quibi intended to distinguish itself from rivals like TikTok or Instagram with higher production values, but it launched during the pandemic, did not catch hold of audiences and missed key viewership metrics for advertisers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024
“Now, Mrs Green, if you’d catch hold of the tongue. I wouldn’t ask everybody, but I know you don’t frighten.”
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2018
“We’ll catch hold of them, even if our workers are killed,” said Mr. Singh, standing at the shelter’s troughs, where dozens of cows fed and the air was thick with the smell of droppings.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2014
It is a fine art to catch hold of the few big interesting assets in the market.
From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2010
By good fortune, instead of being carried past the island and down the river, he was able to catch hold of a low-hanging streamer of weeping willow and pull himself ashore.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
