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 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.
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?
6 But can any one be enamoured of a flash of lightning?
7 Many South Australian politicians have been enamoured with the economic allure of nuclear power.
8 Not everyone had been enamoured with the idea of signing a Leeds player, however.
9 But not everyone in the media was enamoured by the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist.
10 The release of Samutsevich prompted much speculation in a country enamoured of conspiracy theories.
11 It was the skinhead movement that enamoured me the most.
12 What, then, was his surprise to find the First Consul increasingly enamoured of federalism.
13 What marvel that so fair a face enamours me!
14 Besides, the courtiers are enamoured of my seclusion.
15 It tells the fictional story of how a Japanese professor becomes enamoured by North Korea's nuclear weapons.
16 Brows; it enamoured youths delight to cull.
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