Example sentences for: catch-

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

  • The fronts at the LAT , NYT , and WP feature obits for Catch-22 author Joseph Heller, who died Sunday at age 76 of a heart attack.

  • This notion was once a staple of big novels (see Catch-22 or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ), and Exley plays it for all it is worth, ennobling himself through nausea.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Although Catch-22 received mixed reviews when first published, it eventually sold more than 10 million copies in the United States and "enriched the American lexicon with its title slogan and its new definition of absurdity" (Elaine Woo, the Los Angeles Times ). Heller's seventh novel, Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man , was completed just before his death and will be published next year.


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