To attract, arouse and hold attention and interest, as by charm or beauty.
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Examples for "catch "
Examples for "catch "
1 Keeping track of these health statistics can help catch heart problems early.
2 However there are better times of the year to catch this phenomenon.
3 In addition, a catch - up programme targets schoolgirls reaching 18 years of age.
4 Metica said 'now,' great one, and I'll catch it if you're late.
5 Baker said the health system was doing its best to catch up.
1 They were trying to gain entrance by any means necessary, including violence.
2 Note the entrance ; a vertical hole in the snow in the foreground
3 It was the official entrance to Leinster House used for state visits.
4 However, the rear entrance to the centre is another story this week.
5 He's right here, just inside the entrance , blocking the way, Zelandoni said.
1 The state capture inquiry so far He will continue testifying on Tuesday.
2 Today is a hugely significant day in the history of state capture .
3 It's not been a very good week at the state capture inquiry.
4 The electronic health record was used to capture demographic and pathologic data.
5 For instance, state capture doesn't start with one family or two families.
1 The charm of the SEA Games has diminished significantly in recent years.
2 The course oozes style, class and charm in a truly French way.
3 But this great superstitious fear was, however, part of Benedict's eternal charm .
4 One learns the charm of the lone trail in the Canadian bush.
5 Yet the charm of these quirky homes from home is simply irresistible.
1 Until midnight the lawyer held all in the town in a trance .
2 Deep trance - like sleep and lethargy were the first signs of the problem.
3 Seeing the direction of my gaze, Mandor remarked, Very light trance state.
4 The doctor in the meanwhile sat in a sort of delightful trance .
5 The Cornal stood listening to the story as one in a trance .
1 Our aim is to fascinate visitors, involving them in the artistic process.
2 Deirdre Gogarty can hardly remember a time when boxing didn't fascinate her.
3 The passage between the house and the chapel seemed to fascinate Larry.
4 There was no doubt that in some way she did fascinate him.
5 The bare outlines around Oldport sometimes dismay the stranger, but soon fascinate .
1 And with many other pleasant tales did they beguile the hours away.
2 There was at first little in the situation to beguile her spirits.
3 In these tones did the magician, bawling for old lamps, beguile Aladdin.
4 I procured some books and music, to beguile the tedious solitary days.
5 Occasionally a male bird sets himself to beguile the time with song.
1 The travails of the storied playboy prime minister never fail to captivate .
2 A pretty face, or good figure, may captivate ; but fine clothes, never.
3 May none of those unruly passions ever captivate any of my audience.
4 She wanted every day to enchant, to captivate , to drive men crazy.
5 She exerted herself all through the Stearns' dinner to captivate Dave Darrin.
1 So you must visit the newspapers and magazines and enchant the types.
2 She wanted every day to enchant , to captivate, to drive men crazy.
3 And didn't he enchant the wagon wheels so they'd find the road?
4 Italian, as we know it today, was meant to enchant , charm and beguile.
5 Just as Greece's odyssey enchanted Europe, surely hurling requires a new romance.
1 Have a care of the governess, Lucia, or she will bewitch him.
2 This charming creature- Itellyou she is irresistible-hervery oddities bewitch me.
3 Fairies don't bewitch , and witches lose their power to cast spells.
4 She had held a silver instrument, which she had used to bewitch Tobias.
5 Nay, it is as well that I do not; she might bewitch me.
1 And who possesses a perfect and enamour 'd body?
2 Me, I confess, that earth can enamour yet.
5 Why doth my face so enamour thee that thou turnest not to the fair garden which beneath the rays of Christ is blossoming?
1 That were as impossible as for light to be enamored of dark-
2 He left her at the end of this interview violently enamored .
3 He had been enamored of this beauty for months and months.
4 She seems nearly all her life to have been enamored of this experience.
5 But Red Plume continues to be enamored of the instrument.
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