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catches sight of
vb. (en-third-person singularcatch sight of)
Usage examples of "catches sight of".
He checks the rearview again and catches sight of something bright red up on Bear Street beyond the Josephson place a van, it looks like, parked just beyond the southwestern corner of the intersection and then swoops his Schwinn back across the street again, this time to 247, the Wyler place.