catch hold of

On the other hand, the strong updrafts can catch hold of burning embers, lofting them into unburned material, where they can produce “spot fires” up to several miles away from the fireline.

Quibi intended to distinguish itself from rivals like TikTok or Instagram with higher production values, but it launched during the pandemic, did not catch hold of audiences and missed key viewership metrics for advertisers.

By good fortune, instead of being carried past the island and down the river, he was able to catch hold of a low-hanging streamer of weeping willow and pull himself ashore.

Something flickered on the edges of his memory, but he couldn’t quite catch hold of it.

That feeling of something lovely glimpsed and lost is everywhere in these pages — which makes sense considering that the exiles, grieving friends, lonely authors and lonelier time travelers Mandel sets in motion in this luminous follow-up to “Station Eleven” and “The Glass Hotel” are all trying, with varying degrees of success, to catch hold of what keeps eluding them.