How To Use Catch up In A Sentence

Most of this I've written down to get my own thoughts in order before I start draughting letters to the media, but first I have a couple of weeks of university to catch up on… sheesh.
Whatever pumped up your adrenaline, my darling, it took more than a chase to catch up with you.
So I take it, you're going to catch up now with the prime minister and then head back to Israel.
This gave the Field a chance to catch up while the hounds cast back and picked up the line without help from the Master.
His youthful exuberance was making it hard for anyone to catch up with him.

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Amy then extended her arms and spread her legs to increase wind resistance, and Kevin was able to catch up with her.
It's always nice to win the first one, especially against an interdivisional team that's trying to catch up to us," said Verlander. Verlander gets 21st win for Tigers
Roger Hopley, a sheep and arable farmer in Staffordshire, said: ‘This is the first fine day for a while, and the lads have a week's work to catch up on, so it's been quieter.’
He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up.
Upton shot between the two of thema rather close call as far as I could telland zoomed out to catch up with me. Paradise Lost
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Or, Pouring Ketchup On An Over-cooked Campaign, or Ketchup Money to Help Campaign Catch Up, or some sort of bad pun involving Ketchup, money and catch up bonus points if you can also work "kvetch" into the pun*:Unlike Dean and Bush, Kerry said he will put his own money into the campaign, becoming the first Democrat in at least 20 years to do so. November 2003 ~ Angry Bear
He then powered round the course to catch up only to repeat the mis-calculation at the finish.
Always one of the festival's more popular events, people can catch up with all the fair ladies at the various events over the coming days.
Will Western industry ever catch up with Japanese innovations?
Seriously, it seems a lot of people who focus on current biological science become remarkably 'reductionist' and in many ways are still thinking of the universe as a 'clockwork' - that idea has been outdated in physics for over century, time for Richard Dawkins to catch up. Fibonacci Patterns
I noticed that the others were already moving towards the staircase without me, so I hastened to catch up.
Some schools stayed closed yesterday and airlines struggled to catch up as the US north-east plowed out after the powerful weekend snowstorm that piled snow nearly four feet deep in places.
We also chat on the phone, just to catch up. The Sun
I stopped and waited for her to catch up.
It would take him too long to remount and catch up to her again. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
In addition, we should worry when the motivation to do something educationally is to help us catch up with some other country — a stance that seems to look right past the students most of us see day in and day out, almost as if they aren’t there. A Single Spark
Go on ahead. I'll catch up with you.
I quickly pushed myself and sped to catch up to her, but there were too many people and I had to walk.
So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe.
When are we going to catch up with other countries and realise that smoking a bit of pot is not going to turn us all into cocaine addicts.
The cable channel is giving you the chance to catch up on all the groovy episodes by rerunning them in October.
Show if you compare japans weekly sales for the ps3 with the us or indeed the u.k. you can see how irrelevent the market will be to who comes out on top. 18,000 ps3 isnt bad but compared with the lead msoft has in the usa and uk its far too small for sony to catch up any time soon. Eurogamer
It has set us back in so many respects that I'm not sure how long it will take for us to catch up.
No date has been set for a final decision, but they are waiting for neighbours such as Dorset and Portsmouth to catch up.
Fans can catch up with this solid, very well-acted show about a young woman who leaves her small village to work in the bustling town of Cranford, which itself is pretty small, so it all feels rather Little House-ish with a British accent. Michael Giltz: DVDs: Tracy and Hepburn -- The Greatest Screen Team Of All Time
So unless Cisco is about to invest heavily in optical research and find a way to catch up to the Canons and Panasonics of the world, this seems like a purchase at the nadir of a product cycle rather than a value added long term proposition. At $590M, Did Cisco Pay Too Much for Flip?
We found a quiet corner and sat down to catch up. The Sun
Must catch up, will txt when i get another fone.
I got really excited and I started to walk at a faster pace to catch up with the procession.
It might be awhile until the accessories market, such as holsters and night sight options, catch up to this Ruger pistol (2008). WN.com - Articles related to 5 held with AK-47, ammo in Amritsar
It has set us back in so many respects that I'm not sure how long it will take for us to catch up.
None of the competitors could catch up with the untiring runner who was in the lead.
Latecomers hurriedly kneel and bow, trying to catch up with the group prayer in progress.
That problem resurfaced at Newbury last time, when a bad error at the first fence left him playing catch up. Times, Sunday Times
New Zealanders certainly love to read and this gave everyone a wonderful opportunity to catch up on the latest book releases - a chance not to be missed by bookworms.
However, I really should catch up with the girls before they start their promising careers.
We ignored the distractions and chiseled away at the rocks before us at alarming speed, all fearful that the chaos would catch up with us.
From there, the race is on, as you have to catch up to and outdistance your rival.
I am quite content to sit and catch up on all my reading, and I don't have to spend wads of money to do it.
The edition will also allow you to catch up with your favourite columnists and ensure that you can enjoy content you trust in a completely new way. Times, Sunday Times
It has set us back in so many respects that I'm not sure how long it will take for us to catch up.
This company is the most likely to catch up the market leader.
‘That's better,’ he said trotting off on his toddler legs to catch up with his mother who was holding her sides to keep from laughing.
He had to start his swing earlier to catch up to high-velocity pitches.
The other pins its hopes on the transformative power of a supranational politics that will gradually catch up with runaway markets.
We see second quarter growth outpacing the first quarter because private consumption and investment should catch up
And that's given the slower motors on the circuit the chance to catch up. The Sun
I'm knackered already because of a poor night's sleep and there will be little opportunity to catch up during the week.
We wait for the others to catch up, then head offthe lane onto a stony track that descends gently down to a large stack of hay bales. Times, Sunday Times
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
In contrast to every previous encounter of ours, I sober up as we catch up into the early hours.
The pace of the publishing on the Internet drives this kind of timescale, and the "traditional media" haven't yet learned they need to catch up. Fast Company
She plans to return to Dublin to catch up with the relatives she has not seen since she married.
It was always inevitable that her past would catch up with her; there had been too many witnesses to the huffing and blowing. Times, Sunday Times
You can do a reasonable recee in this time, perhaps bait up a likely spot, put the baits out, bivvy up and catch up on your sleep.
We found a quiet corner and sat down to catch up. The Sun
I mean it's gradually improving, but there's a long way to go to catch up with the purses of the higher weight classes.
Those who do not do well during those years seldom if ever catch up with the rest of the population.
They kept the track, and rolled off mile after mile before daylight in an effort to catch up to the leaders.
This company is the most likely to catch up the market leader.
Then one day your showboating will catch up with you and you'll eventfully fall into a sinkhole and break both your legs.
It is a day for household chores, for cleaning and scrubbing, or to catch up with their religious studies.
By my calcs, it will take 8 years of real-terms freezes (i.e. inflation matching increases) for receipts to catch up to TME and get to a surplus. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Petty, mundane chores and tasks you need to catch up on take up most of your time today. The Sun
Still, the law has yet to fully catch up with that position, or even fully incorporate and absorb the evidence on which it was based.
Levinas, also, describes the relationship with the other as time: ‘it is an untotalizable diachrony in which one moment pursues another without ever being able to retrieve it, to catch up with, or coincide with it’ (‘Dialogue’ 21).
When I catch up, the llamas are grazing above a deep valley whose every foot of silt has been terraced for farming.
Lady hesitated for a moment, watching the two in front of her with an inquisitive look before trotting off briskly to catch up.
So I started to cycle as fast as I could and soon began to catch up with the other cyclists.
While his squibs are sometimes cast with a conservative slant, his ‘developing’ scoops often send the mainstream media scrambling to catch up.
Humanity tends to catch up with its crises and disasters just in time. Times, Sunday Times
It is well after midday and time to catch up with the “saintly” Kofi Annan father of Kojo, described in an Australian newspaper as one of the “international bratpack”. Normal service resumes
Or, Pouring Ketchup On An Over-cooked Campaign, or Ketchup Money to Help Campaign Catch Up, or some sort of bad pun involving Ketchup, money and catch up bonus points if you can also work "kvetch" into the pun*:Unlike Dean and Bush, Kerry said he will put his own money into the campaign, becoming the first Democrat in at least 20 years to do so. November 2003 ~ Angry Bear
We found a quiet corner and sat down to catch up. The Sun
I belong to a professional association and we have a little get together once a month to chat and catch up, etc.
She couldn't go to school for a few weeks because of illness, but she'll be able to catch up quickly.
There has been a resumption of diplomatic contacts, a greater willingness to engage the reclusive country and a readiness to help it catch up.
We would leave each other and say, see you later or catch up with you later, but it was never bye.
This kind of switch-over should occur with increasing frequency as photographic subspecialties catch up with technological advances in the mass market.
I have some work to catch up on.
But the truth is that at home at this time, the children would be huddled by the telly while Nev and I grab a moment to catch up after work, and later Nev would be channel-hopping while I mindlessly flick around the internet or read beside him. Powerless to resist: a no-tech break on the Isle of Wight
I'm sat on the upper floor of a Starbuck's on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, watching people come and go in the grey drizzle, while I catch up on my e-mail.
Now they were home with chores and homework to catch up on. Christianity Today
The 16-year-old was told on his arrival that despite being the youngest person to sail the Atlantic single-handed, he would have to work hard to catch up on school work.
This manga-based masterpiece steams ahead on so many levels and with so much depth, detail and mind-bending imagery that your brain barely has time to catch up with itself.
When she eventually returned to work, there was a tremendous backlog of paperwork to catch up on.
After missing a term through illness he had to work hard to catch up .
Yet Father Time may may yet catch up with the fiery Lancashireman.
Maths was another bugbear; he slipped through the net at his comprehensive and could not catch up. Times, Sunday Times
When I came out of my cubicle and crossed to the washbasin, the mother barged me out of the way as she went to catch up with Nana.
Oh well, they've been dancing for longer than me so I guess I have some time to catch up!
Until reality can catch up with aspirations, this emotional deprivation will continue.
Some horses never completely catch up and stay built downhill, or what we call on their forehand, their whole lives.
Many news executives say they realize the need to do something to catch up with the changing media consumption habits of their audience, but they're not sure what to do.
We also chat on the phone, just to catch up. The Sun
For the players, it was a golden opportunity to catch up with their old comrades - and one they are keen to repeat in the future.
The others should catch up pretty quickly in terms of size, and I'm planning to reseed the bucket once it's starting to clear, which should give me another batch in October. Insert amusing Twitter-related title here.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
There was a family get-together to catch up on all the news. The Sun
I wish everyone would calm down so I can try and catch up with what's going on and correct some of the thousands of embarrassing typos I'm certain are littering this report.
Catch up on the action from the first two wild card games. The Sun
My two besties, who are both in different continents, and are usually very busy - too busy to catch up/reply emails/spam FBs - suddenly had a lot of time on their hands recently and we've caught up quite a bit over the past few weeks.
The opportunity for Mass and the chance to meet friends and catch up on the news is much appreciated.
But he made it clear that the Government would not be coerced into conceding pay awards which threatened wage inflation as other public sector employees tried to catch up.
I dodged trees, oaks and maples and elms and the occasional sparse, skinny willow, in order to catch up with her.
Will Western industry ever catch up with Japanese innovations?
The U.S. spent a lot of money trying to catch up with the Soviet Union in space exploration.
She began to catch up after those wasted years and read books and consulted the dictionary constantly.
Her remains may have to wait awhile for cryonic technology to catch up with the reassembly process. Times, Sunday Times
Across the city there has been a levelling off in growth because the supply is now beginning to catch up with the demand.
He spurred his mount to catch up to the knight, the sword glimmering magical light. Villains by Necessity
He loves to catch up on the news after a trip abroad.
Can I catch up with the material or is it too late?
It will be in place on match-days so that fans can catch up on the latest Sunday sporting action before and after the Knights home matches.
Strangely though, it took the police three years to catch up with me. Times, Sunday Times
Fast forward 1 bachelors degree, years working as a modeller, and just having finished my PhD (where I was forced to play catch up and teach myself basic calculus, because shock horror - I needed it!), I have struggled unnecessarily because of my very dumb decision to drop maths prematurely. Why Girls Don't Like Math
He wanted to restore the equilibrium, to let his mind catch up with his body back in England. Times, Sunday Times
I have to catch up on my work so I can't come out.
Oh well, they've been dancing for longer than me so I guess I have some time to catch up!
Entries might be traditional accounts of the day's hiking, messages to stragglers behind heckling them to catch up, introspective omphaloskepsis, cryptic musings of no obvious relevance to anything on the trail, or even entirely different things. Planet Mozilla
Being told they simply had to spend money on capital funding, for example, forced them to catch up on that.
Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
I'll try and catch up on e-mails and in-boxes and such and write a helpful and useful blog entry over the weekend.
The traditional players' efforts to catch up for lost ground in investment performance terms - often by outsourcing to unaffiliated fund management groups - is too little too late, claims Datamonitor.
He stopped and let her catch up with him.
The doctor strode ahead to the end of the corridor, and waited there for the others to catch up.
It is quite tough being away in these early days so it will be nice to catch up. Times, Sunday Times
Because ambitious students attend extra classes (juku) on top of ordinary schooling, their ordinary classes are often boring by comparison and provide good opportunities to catch up on lost sleep. 'Insomnia: A Cultural History'
They go to catch up at her father's yakitori joint, which we learn has been funded by Yakuza money.
That is why this new year presents a crucial opportunity to get beyond managerialism, targets and struggling to catch up with public expectations.
I usually e-mail back that the class has already "gelled" and there's NO way they'll be able to fit in/catch up/have a snowball's chance in hell. "Frankly, my dears, I don't give a damn."
Harris tried to binge-watch the latest television season to catch up.
We met several more of the LGMC boys waiting for departure and most of them are on our train so I'll head back once we get underway and catch up with them.
Anyone unfamiliar with his limpid mind can catch up quickly in his short new book, a compendium of earlier themes, which includes a reminder of his background. Times, Sunday Times
In Nascar, he claims that officials throw "unexplainable" caution flags to allow favored drivers to catch up. To the Winner Go the Spoils
It would take him too long to remount and catch up to her again. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
I ran as fast as I could, but I couldn't catch up with him.
So we've promised ourselves a trip to the garden centre tomorrow, with the intention of getting a couple of trays of cheap and cheerful annuals to fill out the empty bits and to bridge us over until the perennials catch up.
The Par-kef men could easily take it into their heads to catch up to the Hammonds and vent their displeasure. Texas Lawman
Yllin paused a moment by a starflower bush to let us catch up. Promise of the Wolves
Every weekday Games Today offers viewers two opportunities to catch up with best of the day's action featuring highlights of the main events, as well as news and views from top studio guests.
You just go ahead and I'll catch up later.
Since I have to catch up with a number of neglected chores and duties from these last couple of weeks, blogging will be light for a few days.
So that's my next month's aim is get regain sleep, catch up on editing, writing and reviewing and maybe make my loungeroom less of a bombsite :. Gillpolack: Lauren Beukes, Moxyland
So, while the person most associated with growth theory was finding negative or nonpositive results in educating women as an engine for growth, Summers was busy advocating for it knowing that, eventually, the data would catch up. Angry Bear
He watched them catch up with him, cut his head open with a rifle butt and shoot him.
You catch up on movies, read trash and get tucked in by nice young men who offer you Vogue…
October 22, 2008 kgirl said ... congratulations to your dad! and i'm sure you looked beautiful; fleece is always ok by me. oh and yeah, bloglines effed up for me too, hence the mad catch up this week. I Am By Turns Ranty, Bitchy, and Delighted This Weekend
None of the competitors could catch up with the untiring runner who was in the lead.
None of the competitors could catch up with the untiring runner who was in the lead.
I just got in from a day trip with sleepover - hang on, that makes it an overnighter - trip to down south, for fun filled frivolity in Sorrento, and a catch up with the missus.
Under EU rules, trawlers which fish for so-called industrial species are permitted to catch up to 5% of white fish as part of their haul.
Blake sighed, and ran to catch up with his travelling companion.
ENGLAND might have given Twenty20 to the world, but it has not taken the world long to catch up and overtake. Times, Sunday Times
She was dressed in all black, as usual, and her pale skin had a slight flush to it, perhaps from efforts to catch up with Mary.
He loves to catch up on the news after a trip abroad.
To be a successful President is hard enough without having to spend the majority of the year playing catch up.
I need to catch up on my office work.
We are speeding up, and given this rate we should catch up pretty quick - even leaving aside the new wildly new cool things we are planning to launch in the next few months.
After an hour or so, the musher stopped to wait for the skiers to catch up.
I swirled around to face him and saw as he jogged up to catch up with me.
His spiky black hair bristled as he ran to catch up with Kia's team.
The whole country is now in recovery, but the north has the furthest to catch up and is comparatively lagging behind. Times, Sunday Times
Another advantage of the unmanned refit has been the opportunity for the sailors to catch up on leave.
The bishop is ahead, the thief runs to catch up. Your One Week Way to Mind-Fitness
Hurry up, let's catch up the guy who hared away.
The purpose of the directives will be to " catch up with the new situation " following the fourth plenum of the Communist Party central committee held from September 16 to 19.
Despite a voluminous outpouring of books and journal articles, historians are in some senses only beginning to catch up to certain facets of America's Civil War.
I was put on constant after-school detentions to catch up on ALL the work I'd not done or refused to do.
Those of us who use council services know how slow they are to catch up with modern standards of customer service and how unresponsive they can be.
Every peak and promontory shall catch up the symphonious echoes.
She watched shadowy footsteps catch up and go in front, then resumed her earlier speed some five paces behind.
He sprinted to catch up with the man, but he had already disappeared.
It was in sixth grade when Mr. Smart yes, that was really his name pulled my parents aside and notified them that I had fallen behind and needed to catch up to the other students. Chicken Soup for The Soul: Extraordinary Teens
A robe of white, confined loosely to her waist by a vari-colored sash, which drooped gracefully to catch up the folds in front, clung softly to her figure in sylphid revelation of the matchless proportions it could never conceal. The Flaw in the Sapphire
No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to catch up on all the bills.
You'll have to work harder to catch up with the top students in your class.
Their limitations at midfield would catch up with them and a stranglehold of possession would limit their classy forwards.
He stirs himself as the train slows, ready to catch up with her.
The intention is to add more tours to the database each year so that visitors will be able to return and catch up on the latest additions.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
I have to catch up on my sleep.
Monday morning I wandered down to the Sports Hall, having arranged with Caleb over the weekend to catch up and play a friendly game of badminton.
Researchers hope to map an entire genome within a week - but will have to wait two years for technology to catch up. The Sun
This is a good time for you, the caregiver, to get things done, catch up on your rest, or indulge your own interests.
Other cheesemakers are anxious to catch up with the trend. Times, Sunday Times
The driver offers him a bidon but Millar declines and pushes on to catch up to the bunch.
He started working hard much too late in the day-he couldn't possibly catch up.
Aeslyn huffed in annoyance, but halted to let Adelaide catch up, nevertheless.
If the second car tries to slingshot alone in this situation, he often cannot get around the first - as soon as the second swings out to race side by side, the third can catch up, tuck behind the first, and re-establish the draft line.
During the evenings, the school is used by kids who want to catch up on English and mathematics.
If you believe that fundamentals eventually catch up to market behavior, this is not a particularly good portent for stocks going forward.
It has set us back in so many respects that I'm not sure how long it will take for us to catch up.
She quickened her steps to catch up to him, her boots clanging dully on the metal gridwork. Songs of Love & Death

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