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Example sentences for "catch them"

  • If we don't catch them to-morrow we shall be in a pretty bad way, for the country seems practically a wilderness.

  • They've had a good start of us, but we travel lighter and ought to catch them if we don't lose the trail.

  • These bonettas were so anxious to catch them, that they came on shore also, and then the gannets picked them all up.

  • The way to catch them is to get at their heads and turn them over on their backs by one of the fore-fins, and then they cannot turn back again.

  • No, sir; and as William knows how to catch them, suppose you remain with him, and I will go up and collect wood and chips for Juno's fire.

  • They fly with extreme rapidity, skimming over the water at intervals, and escaping easily when one wishes to catch them.

  • They are small insects of gay and brilliant colours, and generally remain on the leaves of low plants, and escape easily from the hand that tries to catch them.

  • When they are deprived of their place of shelter, they run away with such rapidity that it is very difficult to catch them.

  • It is difficult enough to catch them, for owing to their large, highly-developed wings, they fly rapidly away on the slightest noise.

  • No, this church has found out a trick; that is to say, to quarrel with Christ in his members; and to persuade the powers where she rules to set ensnaring laws to catch them, and to execute the same upon them.

  • We'll have to wait until to-morrow, until it gets light, and then take good horses and try to catch them.

  • I shall ride pretty hard until we get near the camp, but we must stop the horses before we get there; otherwise they'll frighten our pack animals, and we won't be able to catch them.

  • We are bound to catch them sooner or later, if we stick to the chase.

  • They'll be afraid we'll telegraph ahead to catch them.

  • I am going to catch them, if I have to follow them a thousand miles!

  • I saw chivin and chub in the stream when washing my hands, but my companion tried in vain to catch them.

  • But it will not be easy to catch them at a disadvantage and fight them; so very likely Don Nepomuceno will be glad to make terms.

  • You'll have to ride like the very mischief to catch them.

  • Having got a clue to the smugglers and the receivers, the next thing was to catch them in the act.

  • Just an ideal place to catch them," Charley declared.

  • Let's either try to catch them or go home.

  • I didn't catch them," said the weary tones.

  • When these birds were more plentiful, the natives used to catch them at night by torch-light.

  • Should any one attempt to catch them, they quaver forth a piteous sound, so full and expressive that we are astonished that it can be produced by so small a creature.

  • Nor did we want for Fish, because we had good store of Nets, Hooks, and other Instruments to catch them.

  • Some rested themselves as well as they could; others dropped into the Water, where they were reliev'd immediately by Persons who were underneath in little Boats, on purpose to catch them.

  • Our Bows were also of great Use to us for hunting, otherwise we should have been in Danger of being famish'd; but the Birds were not so tame as those we had formerly met with, so that it requir'd a great deal of Art to catch them.

  • If you need to catch them, put them under a tumbler, and feed them and give them a drop of water every day to drink.

  • And they are hard and smooth, too, which makes it yet more difficult to catch them.

  • Yes, it is because the frogs are on the watch to catch them.

  • As already mentioned, mink travel a great deal near water, so that the place to catch them is close to the water or in the water.

  • I have followed them for six miles already and they were still going on; I don't believe that they have any regular den or hole after the breeding season is over; you just have to catch them on the run.

  • The answer is invariably, "I can't catch them, I don't know how.

  • Mink fur is not good and prime before the middle of November in Iowa and states in same latitude, and it is useless to catch them earlier.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catch them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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