Example Sentences

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Despite a massive daily cleanup operation that leaves the post-parade landscape remarkably clean, uncaught beads dangle from tree limbs like Spanish moss and get ground into the mud under the feet of passers-by.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2024

Even survival did not mean good health, and, with fields unplanted and animals uncaught, starvation followed closely behind.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

I love memoirs that include the usually uncaught world around the writer, such as C. L. R. James’s “Beyond a Boundary,” Mikhail Bulgakov’s “A Country Doctor’s Notebook” or Raja Shehadeh’s “Palestinian Walks.”

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2018

Meanwhile, a large number of the fish made available by state fishery managers goes uncaught.

From Washington Times • Jan. 13, 2018

Not only did all those police act as a deterrent, but they also provided the manpower to imprison criminals who might have otherwise gone uncaught.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt