catcher

How To Use catcher In A Sentence

• This, Stuart was told, would give enough time to detach the hooks from their mouths and let them free, with relatively little danger to the catcher.
• Shore bird numbers are declining, he says, particularly among oystercatchers, red-capped dotterels and beach thick-knees.
• Simmons and Torre are clearly inferior to the other ten catchers and would rank 11 th and 12 th, respectively, in my book.
• The highlight of spring migration is without a doubt the return to northern climes of dazzlingly-colored warblers, flycatchers, and tanagers.
• Some of these have images etched onto them - the background to the window shows some of God's creations which my father thought were especially lovely - tormentils, oystercatchers, skylarks and of course St. Margaret's Church.
• With an effort, he kept himself from using the term butterfly catchers, “... gentlemen.” Starfleet Year One
• Then he let the cony-catcher go and returned home, drunken with chagrin and concern as with wine. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Back in the 1950s, Dutch ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen conducted now-classic studies of the bird's incubation behavior and discovered something astonishing: When presented with a choice between brooding its own small egg and the giant egg of a much larger bird, the oystercatcher invariably chose to sit on the giant one. From 'The End of Overeating'
• The fasciated honey-eater has loudly called “with a voice that seemed the very sound of happiness”; the leaden flycatcher, often silent but seldom still, has twittered and whispered plaintively; the sun-birds are playing gymnastics among the lemon blossoms, and the centre of activity for butterflies is the red-flowered shrub bordering the wavering path. Tropic Days
• He holds the major league record for putouts by a catcher and played an NL-record 2,056 games at the position.