How to Use gotcha in a Sentence

gotcha

noun

• The program has a few gotchas in store for unsuspecting computer users.
• Yes, only to pop out and say, gotcha.
  — ABC News, 21 Dec. 2025
• In one light, this is a real gotcha moment.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
• And the people who want to do gotchas on me only show the first part.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Everyone makes mistakes — and the point is not to play gotcha.
  — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
• This can feel like a gotcha for customers who are not fully aware of how roaming works.
  — David Kravets, WIRED, 20 July 2007
• Allow me a moment to offer just a few of the gotchas and downsides.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• To be clear, the novel is careful not to be some sort of a takedown or gotcha novel.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
• Portland artist Sam Pletcher threw the gotcha grenade with a scathing gram.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
• Quite a few people flagged her tweet as a gotcha, but there was nothing surprising about it.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
• There’s no way out when the media play this game of social-justice/systemic-racist gotcha.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2024
• So, what are the biggest gotchas for vacation rental customers?
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
• And sometimes the gotcha nature of the reports backfires.
  — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
• Words have varying meanings and by their nature allow for loopholes and gotchas.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• This assumes subscribers are using the right kinds of phones — and that’s another gotcha, for now.
  — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 4 Dec. 2019
• But Kirk’s acolytes seem more interested in a game of gotcha than true, honest discourse.
  — Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
• The point of the agency is not a game of gotcha to try to criminally prosecute people.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2024
• The wraparound cockpit screens make a lot of information available, but there’s one gotcha.
  — James Morris, Fortune Europe, 6 Oct. 2024
• The action of being frenetic and trying to search for your legally winning gotcha was old hat.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Yet the comparison quickly turns into a gotcha.
  — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• The problem is that during the getting up-to-speed time, there might be inadvertent gotchas or hiccups that arise.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• These require more than sound bites, more than a base-energizing gotcha or two, and more than familiar promises.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
• Claire and Jack rush into her home office expecting something awful, but gotcha!
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020
• At a Black Bear party, gotcha reporters and leering industry types jockey to meet her.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
• Carefully paced and totally harrowing, this one’s for fans of the slow burn who also pray to the horror gods for a gotcha from a demon.
  — New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• The final gotcha—when Malcolm at long last realizes his true fate—is well-earned and, as far as twists go, Shyamalan's best work.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• Anti-American nihilism and hopeless racial cynicism give the show its gotcha.
  — Armond White, National Review, 26 Aug. 2020
• The gotcha setup sustains a solid level of suspense that carries through the series’ eight episodes (though it could easily have been trimmed to six).
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
• But his dependence on the gotcha has marred his filmography, leaving the filmmaker with a spotty track record himself.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
• Maybe the vacation rental industry continues to thrive despite its gotcha fees and extras because guests like us make assumptions.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024