Example sentences for: catch-

How can you use “catch-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Richard Bernstein praises the novel as "a funny, melancholy, romantic, disturbing, character-rich window on the war" (the New York Times ). But others complain that "the influences of Joseph Heller's classic Catch-22 and Louis de Bernières' recent Corelli's Mandolin are rather too blatantly present" and make the novel feel overly familiar.

  • Repetition of meaningful phrases (like Heller's own coinage, "catch-22") tends to drain them of meaning.

  • And it's as neat a Catch-22 as you're ever going to see, even through those disposable contact lenses.

  • We have here a delightfully constructed catch-22: if you don't study your grammar you're uneducated; if you do, you've been exposed to a proper education by your kindly school system; but when you use one of your grammar book's dreadfully improper constructions as a model, you place yourself in the class of the obviously simple-minded, whose opinions are irrelevant.

  • This is especially true in Washington, which Heller lampooned in Good As Gold , one of his minor novels (let's face it, aside from Catch-22 , they were all minor).


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