How to Use catch-up in a Sentence

catch-up

1 of 3 adjective

• Great for a date or a catch-up with friends.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026
• The last one is about where the next phase of that catch-up happens.
  — Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
• Weekends meant for rest turned into work catch-up.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Time for a post-holiday catch-up.
  — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
• Those games were largely shootouts in wins and catch-up sprints in losses.
  — Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2025
• The Laver Cup has 90 years of catch-up to do.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• The cozy space is great for a quiet morning or a cute catch-up with friends.
  — Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• That’s how McCarthy found himself in catch-up mode.
  — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
• The time off can be used for academic catch-up or enrichment.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• Practice was coming to a close, but not before a water break and catch-up with friends.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
• Despite the valiant efforts, catch-up hockey does not become them.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
• What was supposed to be a quick catch-up turned into a delightful two-hour reunion.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 6 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Here’s a quick catch-up on what to expect, plus B-sides from culture and history.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
• China is so far behind the developed world now that more catch-up growth is possible.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• While this video wasnt shot at a target store, many feel these type of actions will continue as supply chains catch-up.
  — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• For the girls' catch-up day, Crawford looked stunning in a tie-dye cover-up and oversized straw hat.
  — Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
• Adding to the complexity of the math catch-up challenge is debate over how the subject should be taught.
  — Ariel Gilreath, al, 29 Aug. 2023
• Last night was a return to normalcy for SNL, and a game of catch-up.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2023
• All said, the catch-up payments stand to be a huge boon to gig workers and delivery drivers throughout the state.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• Those aged 50 and over are allowed to add catch-up contributions to this limit.
  — Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
• The entire market was bottomed out at the turn of the century, so there was a big catch-up necessary.
  — Moneyshow, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• First-year peppers have a lot of catch-up growing to do, which may interfere with pepper production.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2025
• With the poor shooting first half — only four field goals made —putting them in catch-up mode, the Eagles’ valiant rally feel short.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2024
• Millions of Americans may lose a chance to make a catch-up contribution next year.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• But his impressive catch-up sprint behind Gibson will be a postscript to this highlight.
  — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
• In true '90s fashion, Lopez rang up Jarrett for a quick catch-up on brick cellphones.
  — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
• But skipping breakfast sets you up to play a game of catch-up the rest of the day to fulfill your nutrition and energy needs.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2026
• That catch-up to Wegovy was seen in Lilly's latest earnings report.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
• Weeknights are spent at work happy hours and catch-up dinners with friends, while your weekends are booked up with weddings and family trips.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 3 July 2023

catch-up

2 of 3 noun

• Catch up with a 1-minute video catch-up.
  — Cate Martel, The Hill, 13 Apr. 2026
• So there was a lot of playing catch-up.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
• The catch-up play is not about volume but signal.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• The quick catch-up in a crowded hallway.
  — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• The rest of the table tennis world is still playing catch-up.
  — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 12 May 2026
• In years past, she had been given catch-up days to focus on a single type of case.
  — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
• Tuesday's report provides a kind of catch-up.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 12 May 2026
• For many households, incomes are still playing catch-up.
  — Bruce Helmer, Twin Cities, 23 May 2026
• Apple has been playing catch-up with on AI with its Big Tech peers.
  — ABC News, 5 June 2026
• For the first time the whole game, all the players glued their eyes to the plate, conversations and catch-ups stopped mid-sentence.
  — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
• Illinois has been playing catch-up as technology outpaces the law.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
• The outbreak is outpacing the global response, as doctors in the region play catch-up.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 1 June 2026
• Governance is always playing catch-up, trying to clean up issues after the fact.
  — Matthew Gantner, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
• If still working, pay attention to new catch-up contribution levels.
  — Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
• Anthropic released Claude Code a year ago, forcing other rivals to play catch-up.
  — Shirin Ghaffary, Bloomberg, 20 Feb. 2026
• Make the maximum contribution each year, as well as the catch-up contribution.
  — Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2026
• And then developer conference season comes in fast, bringing with it all the reminders of who is playing catch-up with whom.
  — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 12 June 2026
• That’s bad news for a Knicks team that’s built a poor habit of playing catch-up after slow starts both in the regular season and in the playoffs.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 June 2026
• Some of that progression was likely some natural catch-up given his late July birthday.
  — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2026
• This is an opportunity to get better, not to play catch-up for Joel, but to actually get better and build on last year.
  — CBS News, 8 June 2026
• All content on the TF1+ streaming and catch-up service can be accessed via Netflix.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 18 June 2026
• Deputy Director Alan Gonzalez said the team is playing catch-up with the disease.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 31 May 2026
• The world’s fractured global-health community is now playing a lethal game of catch-up with an extremely dangerous virus.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
• To compound the stress, those returning from time off frequently face a mountain of catch-up work, instantly undoing the good vibes.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 June 2026
• Cramer said there may be a catch-up opportunity in the smaller retailer, though Costco remains his long-term favorite.
  — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 15 May 2026
• That left the administration scrambling to play catch-up once the private deal closed and the new owners announced fuel operations would end.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
• Especially if the Knicks play another game of unnecessary catch-up and rely on the Spurs to fall apart down the stretch once again.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
• The percentage dipped some for the final week of the season, possibly because viewers were doing some catch-up viewing on the first installment.
  — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
• Doing so creates the false impression that PC makers are always playing a game of catch-up or follow-the-leader, which is not the case.
  — Marco Chiappetta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• As the set-piece revolution hit the Premier League, Arsenal were riding the wave instead of playing catch-up.
  — Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 21 May 2026

catch up

3 of 3 verb

• Now, the demons have caught up.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
• Need to catch up on the show first?
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 19 May 2026
• Ars caught up with him to learn more.
  — ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
• That’s when the cops caught up with him.
  — ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
• To me, this is where cities need to catch up.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
• Read more You’re all caught up.
  — Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2026
• Overnight, the roots catch up and the leaves get perky again.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• Now, at last, the cult of the war has caught up with him.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
• But at that point, I was caught up in it.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026
• And there is catching up to do.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
• But will his hands ever catch up?
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• Sports as a kid catching up with me.
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
• The schedule kind of caught up to us.
  — Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
• But then he’s caught up in the moment.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
• Or have the times simply caught up with it?
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
• Their mandate isn’t to catch up.
  — Jason Wingard, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• There's plenty more to catch up.
  — Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Feb. 2026
• Don’t get caught up in the shiny numbers.
  — Alex Sherman,contessa Brewer, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
• My body turns away before my mind can catch up.
  — Valeng Cha, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
• Until then, catch up on the whole saga here.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
• The few that didn’t have hustled to catch up.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 23 June 2026
• Surely time doesn’t catch up with you overnight.
  — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 24 May 2026
• Garces caught up, but appeared to bring him down.
  — Damian Calhoun, Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
• They get caught up, but their hearts were in the right place to do it.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 June 2026
• The tools were ready before the org chart caught up.
  — Cindy Rodriguez Constable, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• And that spirals her, and then she gets all caught up.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
• They got caught up in a storm and were too young to escape.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
• Ahead, catch up on the cast’s off-screen romances.
  — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 26 June 2026
• Those that don’t may be forced to catch up in real time.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
• The ones that wait could spend the next few years catching up.
  — Chris Wade, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026