catch sight of
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Or you may catch sight of foxes, skunks, raccoons and other Mid-Atlantic mammals.
From Washington Post
At Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, for instance, which abuts Willapa National Wildlife Refuge and Willapa Bay, you might catch sight of a pelagic species like a sooty shearwater, while hundreds of thousands of shorebirds like black-bellied plovers work the wet sand.
From New York Times
In a matter of minutes on Friday, the entire complex was put on lockdown for over an hour, as reporters and Capitol staff members were left to press up against windows to catch sight of the unfolding chaos with little information about the scale of the threat.
From New York Times
In elementary school, I was terrified that my peers would catch sight of my report card — not because of my grades but because it showed that I lived in an apartment, not a single-family house like most of my classmates.
From Washington Post
But if you happen to accidentally catch sight of him coming down the ramp from Air Force One, or taking the stage at one of his super-spreader get-togethers out there in the hinterland, check him out.
From Salon
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