Used in a Sentence

catches

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for catches.

Editorial note

By the time supply catches up with demand, the car manufacturers will already have gone out of business.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of catches gathered in one view.

noun

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

noun

A slight remembrance; a trace.

verb

To notice.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for catches.

noun

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

noun

A slight remembrance; a trace.

verb

To notice.

noun

(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.

Example sentences

1

By the time supply catches up with demand, the car manufacturers will already have gone out of business.

2

A second disk won't necessarily help if your computer gets dropped in a pool, house catches on fire, etc.

3

As if their profits will take a hit, if this new fangled Soylent thing catches on.

4

Titanic: pretty heiress enjoys shipboard romance with handsome peasant until angry fiance catches her.

5

In Java8, escape analysis usually catches most of the objects that can be moved to the stack, and they don't touch the heap anyway.

6

I would expect this situation to last only until Nvidia catches on and updates their drivers.

7

If it catches their attention, they'll ask you more about it.

8

If it catches the mainstream, let myself interview in the tabloids.

9

Currently construction activities are 1/3 of the size than boom period and I would estimate it catches up in 2-3 years.

10

I wonder what happens if Steve Jobs catches you with a Zune at Apple?

11

No good metrics on my end, but anecdotally, the compiler regularly catches bugs that I would have had to find via testing.

12

Too often your boss wants you to redo your calculation and after a few iterations, time not spent documenting / cleaning catches up with you in Excel.

Quote examples

1

It seems like, if this catches on, there could be large rewards for sneaking in hard-to-notice "mistakes".

2

These drawings are pretty ambiguous, and unless it catches on with the less-techy crowd you'd have to add an attached note "Go download the Meshtag app to read this!", which would probably not happen too often.

3

I'm hoping the "browse in a VM" thing catches on with the public, even if it's for the "I want to hide my browser history from my significant other" sort of reasons.

4

The most "libertarian" example of a community funded fire service I've ever heard of is the one where you pay "dues" to the fire department, and they'll come put out the fire if your house ever catches.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use catches in a sentence?

By the time supply catches up with demand, the car manufacturers will already have gone out of business.

What does catches mean?

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

What part of speech is catches?

catches is commonly used as noun, verb.