catch on
Example Sentences
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The house the band was staying in caught on fire and that was the end of that chapter.
From Salon
A pine marten has been caught on camera in Cornwall in what conservationists hope could be the start of a comeback in the county.
From BBC
Regardless of the games that companies and analysts are playing, you’d think that investors would have caught on and stopped rewarding earnings beats.
From Barron's
"You need to be able to show the farmer what you've caught on his land," he says.
From BBC
Fuller-Seeley says that “singing ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?’ really caught on in popular culture as a way of trying to thumb your nose at the Great Depression.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.