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Example sentences for "caught napping"

  • The enemy were determined to make one more effort on a grand scale in order to try and save the town, and we did not know the spot or the hour the storm would burst upon us, so it was best not to be caught napping.

  • But our Government were not to be caught napping; a strong fleet and a nice little land force was despatched, and demanded the whole of the Danish fleet, by treaty or by force.

  • But we must not be caught napping: our motto must be, "Fear God and keep your powder dry," and as true Britons we need fear no one else.

  • The impression seemed to prevail that they had been "caught napping," and possibly they could not accomplish anything.

  • The nervy fellow was not to be caught napping.

  • Old Bill” was not to be caught napping, and ran like a deer still further up the divide.

  • Once I read in the snow the story of his hunt after a crow--wary game to be caught napping!

  • When with all his cunning Reynard is caught napping, he makes use of another good trick he knows.

  • He seems to know that he is not good at dodging; that they are all quicker than he, and are not to be caught napping.

  • He did not intend to be caught napping by the officers.

  • He did not intend to be caught napping by the officers Frontispiece 67 "He's hooked pretty fast.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caught napping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    caught her; caught himself; caught napping; caught robbing; caught sight; caught the; earning money; eyed goddess; hoist side and outer; last succeeded; living thing; make great; mission house; much flour; personal will; popular vote from single; puir thing; railway company; terra regis; when the water boils; white swelling; white wool; would give; you again; you forget; you have been told