Dey didn't shoot if dey could cotch it some other way, 'cause powder and lead am scarce.
If he cotch dem tryin' play off sick, den he lay into dem, or if he cotch dem loafin'.
One time us live close to the bay and that gran' and us take a stove and cotch catfish and perch and cook 'em on the bank and us go meet oyster boats and daddy git 'em by the tub.
I sho' wish I could have cotch myself sleepin' on a feather bed them days.
Dey cotch de deer by makin' de salt lick, and uses a spring pole to cotch pigeons and birds.
That the only way to cotch them, 'cause they so wild you couldn't git a fair shot with a rifle.
I buyed tobacco and candy and if massa cotchme with tobacco I'd git a whippin', but I allus slipped and bought chewin' tobacco.
Sometime we'd run away and hide in de woods for a spell, but when they cotch us Marse Greenville tie us down and whip us so we don't do it no more.
Down be the rath in Reilly's Park They say that Larry Shawn That's gone away across the say, Once cotch a Leprechawn.
I ain't gwine to let none of Marse Thomas Didymuses' temptatious bedoutin' tricks cotch no holt of my understands of de Lord.
Cause I want to cotch a few beavers I must let this gal be, when she has been lost to her husband already for three months.
Worse than that, she cotchmy wife an' turned my home into a hell, an' nature shut her eyes an' all war dark fur me.
Up in the hills one time a dog bit an old feller, and his son's cotch the dog an' put a rope around his neck to hang him.
So Miz Doxey finally cotch old John," said Jasper and his wife declared she wouldn't make light of it.
Jes show him a gun an' he ain't nowhar ter be seen--like he war cotch up in the clouds.
Wen you swoonded, Missy Mara cotch you in her arms.
You'll cotch it some day, an' den you know what 'tis.
A lot of dem run away but dey sic de nigger dogs on dere trail andcotch dem.
After our folks came in from the field they et supper and some went to Salt Water Creek to cotch fish and crabs.
I'd hear de nigger dogs a-runnin' and when dey cotch de niggers dey bites 'em all over and tears dey clothes and gits de skin, too.
Massa cotch de run-offs with de nigger hounds and if he don't, dey git hongry and sneaks back.
One night a big panther try steal de hawg meat and old Jeff cotch him and helt him till de men comes.
Us have to run dat man down and cotch him, 'cause he scared stiff when dat dead cat fall on him.
You gwine have lots of luck iffen you cotch de rabbit in de graveyard on de dark of de moon and cut off he hind leg and wear it.
I jes' hold de breath, 'cause if dat panther cotchme breathin' dat been de end of me.
We et flour bread Sundays, but you daren't git cotch with flour dough 'cept on that day.
When us goin' down de road to de baptisin' dey's a squirrel run 'cross de road and us chillen all broke and run to cotch it.
Dey had blue-back spellers, but I didn't cotch on much and can't read or write now.
They come round ev'ry little while to spy an' cotch ther folks that makes it.
He took it for a sinker to his lines, for Indian Jake telled him a piece of gold would cotch the grit fish.
I heerd him sayin' he was goin' down to the crick to cotch a fish.
An' let me tell yuh, thar must be sumthin' in theh wind tuh make him fotch his posse along whar no sheriff ever did cotch his game up tuh this day.
Pappy used to cotchso many sometimes he jest put 'em in a box and let us eat 'em when us got ready.
Ain't no shads beencotch in the river round here in so long I disremembers when!
We cotch our fishes mos'n generally with hook and line, but the carpenters on our plantation knowed how to make basket traps that sho' nuff did lay in the fishes!
Dey had to keep knives from Pappy or when dem dogs cotch him he would jus' cut 'em up so dey would die.
We cotch lots of wild tukkeys and partidges in traps and nets.
I cotch lots of grasshoppers and started fishin' in the crick runnin' through the pastur' and fust thing I knowed, the overseer was roundin' up all the other niggers to git the cows outen the cornfields!
Jus' the same, we had plenty 'possums and nobody ax how we cotch 'em!
Folkses said dey would git you and beat you if dey cotch you off de plantation whar you b'longed 'thout no pass.
Us cotch lots of 'possums, but mighty few of 'em us Niggers ever got a chance to eat, or rabbits neither.
It wuz de cook's place to boss us when de other Niggers wuz off in de fields, and evvy time us tried to slip off, she cotch us and de way dat 'oman could burn us up wid a switch wuz a caution.
One day Marster cotch 'em at it, and he didn't say a word 'til time come to pay off, and he tuk out for all de time dey had lost.
Laws, I cotch you in dat, you'll nebber forget it!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
