How to Use play catch-up in a Sentence

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• And the rest of us were always trying to play catch-up with him.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2021
• The agreement with Lucid could help the brand play catch-up.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 26 June 2023
• So the Fed has had to play catch-up with a series of sharp rate increases.
  — Paul Wiseman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• But Patrick Mahomes can sling it, and that will put pressure on Matt Ryan to play catch-up.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
• Thompson returned an on-side kick 7 yards for a score as the Rattlers tried to play catch-up.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2023
• Boston controlled most of the first half but missed its first seven shots to start the second half and was forced to play catch-up.
  — courant.com, 27 Dec. 2020
• Crews often are stuck having to play catch-up on routes missed earlier in the week.
  — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• In a broad sense, Apple is more than happy to play catch-up in certain areas.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
• Still, China has made impressive gains over the past four decades and continues to play catch-up with the U.S. Navy.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2020
• In a typical spring, the teams from Northeast Ohio would struggle with the awful weather that plagues the area and would be forced to play catch-up with the rest of the state.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2021
• The defense’s deficiencies put the onus on the offense to play catch-up, and that left little room for error.
  — Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020
• Demand has been so strong that Ford stopped taking orders last year to play catch-up on production.
  — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2023
• Refineries, which turn crude oil into fuels that can be used in cars and trucks, have tried to play catch-up on both sides of the Atlantic in recent months.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• The Fed now must play catch-up, even with the risk of pushing the economy into a significant slowdown.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2022
• Opponents often outplayed the Stars early in games, forcing them to play catch-up.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
• The situation looks especially dire since there’s no time to play catch-up.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2023
• But as those projects dragged, units remained vacant and conditions got even worse, with DCHA now trying to play catch-up to prepare hundreds of them for move-ins.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
• Fiction, as always, will have to play catch-up, which is what Thomas Grattan’s career now seems splendidly to be doing.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• The Eagles expanded their lead on second-period power-play goals from Kaut and Sherwood and the Gulls were left scrambling to play catch-up from that point on.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
• Losing OTAs, offseason workouts and preseason games due to the pandemic will force the rookie class to play catch-up.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• The Bulls shot only 39% from the floor during the opening quarter, allowing the Rockets to take the double-digit advantage and forcing them to play catch-up.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• That meant the bloc came out of winter with unusually low storage volumes and had to play catch-up, adding pressure to an already-tight global market.
  — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• Radio, television, and print media, which were accustomed to controlling the flow of mainstream music, had to play catch-up.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2023
• The accelerated disruption of retail brought on by the pandemic is forcing many to play catch-up with their customers.
  — Elizabeth Spaulding, Fortune, 7 June 2021
• Fresh off a contract extension this offseason worth $96 million, Cousins looks lost without a reliable running game and being forced to play catch-up the first two games.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• The worldwide shift to working and learning from home, along with greater demand for semiconductors in vehicles, overwhelmed chip makers and forced them to play catch-up in recent months.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2021
• When demand started to return significantly last spring, gas and oil producers had to play catch-up.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2021
• Those issues took on more urgency when the Masters had a three-hour weather delay Thursday morning, forcing the tournament to play catch-up the rest of the week in limited daylight.
  — Joe Reedy, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• The Buckeyes continue to play catch-up in that part of the development of this season’s potential safety net and next season’s possible starter.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2020
• Forced to play catch-up all afternoon, the Bills – eliminated from last year’s playoffs in the divisional round after losing in overtime at Kansas City – could never make up the deficit.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024