Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers

Usage examples of catching.

She did not want to harm the bird, but the thing had already bloodied her and would not back off, so she conjured a minor Venca spell, catching the bird as it plummeted down, insensate.

On wearied horses, the Aberdeen clannsmen would have their work cut out catching up with all the raiders.

The box of condoms Jacob had presented Simon with the day after catching Amanda sleeping in his arms winked up at him, but it was the antistatic straps he had stashed there at some point that interested him at the moment.

They stayed there most of the day, catching up on food and sleep and being fitted with Argentian clothing.

Winter weekends, whole summers out in the woods, in empty lots, in our immense, dark backyard, examining the scat of rabbits, catching bizarre electrical arthropoda in jars, convinced, sensing firsthand the terrible expanse of the place.

As she ate, she asked questions about what was happening in Boot and Backland, catching up on things that had happened in the twenty years since she left.

Those going on to Basrah were separated from those who were catching a connecting plane to Baghdad.

I ducked my behatted head, but not before catching another snatch of my reflection in one of the looking-glasses: a black-haired bravo with his buttons glinting and his hat tipped at a rakish angle.

Wagner and Bauer at the Bofors gun, shattering the wheelhouse windows, catching Langsdorff in the back, driving him headfirst through the door.

The stubble of recently cut clover and bromegrass prickled against her bare ankles as she slid out of the truck, the light breeze catching in her hair and picking up the sweet scent of the thistle patch in the ditch along the road.

Samson stood in the middle of the breach, ignoring the gunfire from the enemy on the ground, and cut loose with his Bushmaster, catching the troopers on the ladders in a hail of lead, blasting them from the ladders and checking the assault.

A second Pom swooped in out of the murk, his wake catching Carmen and starting her spinning.

DAVID HAGBERG Next, he telephoned Phil Carrara at CIA headquarters, catching the DDO just as he was heading upstairs to lunch with Lawrence Danielle.

And since seeing that I have imagined Jacques Cartier in 1535 looking off to the southeast, when his disappointed vision of the west had tired his eyes, and catching first sight of these dim indentations of his sky, the White Mountains, which the colonists from England did not see until a century later and then only from their ocean side.

But when it came to catching cheaters, the most important thing in the room was a computer program called Creep File.