Examples of cat and mouse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The interview is the culmination of a decades-long game of cat and mouse between Jackson and Shelton. — CBS News, 7 May 2022 And while our capacity to accurately judge trust improved with time, our tendency to deceive others improved in turn, resulting in a never-ending cat and mouse game. — Tomas Chamorro-premuzic, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022 If playing the 13th-seeded Osaka was toe to toe, playing the No. 1 Ashleigh Barty was cat and mouse. — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2022 Maybe Carlson kills Annie and then Negan hunts him down in an epic game of cat and mouse set in a zombie apocalypse literally anywhere other than here. — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022 What Russia faces now is an intensifying game of cat and mouse, Krapiva said. — Brian Fung, CNN, 12 Mar. 2022 The crackdown has triggered a game of digital cat and mouse, as users look for ones authorities haven’t yet found or fully blocked. — Sam Schechner And Keach Hagey, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022 On the cartel side of the story, Mike, Gus (Giancarlo Esposito), Nacho (Michael Mando) and Lalo (Tony Dalton) find themselves in a game of cat and mouse with the highest possible stakes. — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2022 Maqueda, Bezerra and writer-producer Haizea G. Viana wrote the script, which retains the play’s cat and mouse element, as well as the constant plot twists. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022 See More

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“Cat and mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cat%20and%20mouse. Accessed 27 May. 2022.

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