How to Use catchphrase in a Sentence

catchphrase

noun
  • Since then, the catchphrase has traveled from the streets of Coney Island all the way to the White House.
    Mike Wass, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The catchphrase started as a nod to the Gaels’ playing style.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Napier picked up the catchphrase around the card table as a kid.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But in that country now there is a new catchphrase: Eat or heat.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Bonus points if the game gives you control of wardrobes and catchphrases.
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2019
  • What’s the weirdest place someone’s asked you to recreate the catchphrase?
    Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Chances are her snow-cone chilly catchphrase will come straight from Blackpink.
    Bart Bull, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The first start is putting fans -- holding their homemade signs and wearing their catchphrase T-shirts -- back in the seats.
    Dan Gelston, Chron, 16 July 2021
  • Maybe this is the time to remind everybody of a much older catchphrase, a meme of its day.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
  • But on some sites, that catchphrase is being taken a step too far.
    Ben Westcott and Serenitie Wang, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • This, of course, is a catchphrase from Brolin’s 1985 cult-favorite adventure film The Goonies.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
  • Bloom owes the clubhouse more than catchphrases about the future.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • Some members see it as a to-do list, but there can be more to this popular catchphrase.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The catchphrase seems to embody how most people feel about their trusty sidekick that doesn’t leave their sight.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
  • There’s almost always more to any story than a knee-jerk flavor-of-the-month catchphrase.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 May 2021
  • What may have started as a marketing catchphrase has come to feel like a badge of honor.
    Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The name leans on Donald Trump's campaign catchphrase and, true to form, promises something grand.
    Michael D'antonio, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Cook invoked the leafy vegetable twice Wednesday to describe the Vikings’ running game, with a catchphrase that seemed to go over the heads of the reporters who heard it.
    Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Cook invoked the leafy vegetable twice on Wednesday to describe the Vikings’ running game, with a catchphrase that seemed to go over the heads of the reporters who heard it.
    Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Electing not to add that catchphrase to the Love Island dictionary.
    Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 3 July 2021
  • But the catchphrase, both thanks to and in spite of its deceptive simplicity, has stuck.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Guralnik, by contrast, has no tie-ins, no merch, no catchphrase—at least, not yet.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Taking its name from one of Bard’s catchphrases, the film highlights the potential and risk of a tool that can, and will, do just about anything.
    Daniel Freed, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In this de facto role, Preskill has coined catchphrases to make concepts in the math-heavy field easier to grasp.
    Sophia Chen, Wired, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Becoming Ric Flair — a play on his infamous catchphrase in the ring.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
  • This takes us back to the medical profession and the catchphrase about horses and zebras.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The video went viral, even as confusion arose in response to the troubling ring of Hanks’s catchphrase.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Her campaign marketed the catchphrase (bowdlerised with stars) as a T-shirt.
    The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The catchphrase, to Barr, reinforced the traditional idea of where a woman should be.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 25 July 2021
  • The catchphrase on the T-shirt is a meme used by conservatives to insult President Biden.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022

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