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How to use catchy in a sentence

34 example sentences · adjective

Catchy means instantly appealing and memorable. Example: “Eric wrote a catchy tune to play on his acoustic guitar while Alyssa plays the drums.”

Examples of catchy by meaning

adjectiveInstantly appealing and memorable.

  • Eric wrote a catchy tune to play on his acoustic guitar while Alyssa plays the drums.
  • This hook is so catchy that I can't stop listening to it!
  • Because in today's 2,000mph technological freefall, he who coins the catchiest buzzword generally wins the debate by default.2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 May 2023

adjectiveTending to catch or ensnare; entangling.

  • a catchy question

adjectiveConsisting of, or occurring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable.

  • a catchy wind

adjectiveContagious; catching.

  • The catchy cold which has been transmitted to you directly or indirectly might have been avoided had you been in better physical condition.1941, Florence LaGanke Harris, Hazel Hanna Huston, The New Home Economics Omnibus

More sentences with catchy

  • Eric played a catchy tune on his acoustic guitar and Alyssa played the drums.From the entry tune
  • The music was rejuvenatingly catchy, and even some of the older people started dancing.From the entry rejuvenatingly
  • The catchiest part of most songs is the chorus.From the entry chorus
  • Vince knew that his ability to come up with a catchy hook would make or break his song.From the entry make or break
  • Like most great BMTH songs from the last decade, it's both extremely catchy and also super energetic.2022 July 6, Eli Enis, “See Bring Me the Horizon's Horrifying, NSFW Video for New Song "sTraNgeRs"”, in Revolver. From the entry BMTH
  • The grammar of Esperanto provides good opportunities to create pithy and catchy PUs, especially proverbs.2015, Sabine Fiedler, “Esperanto Phraseology”, in Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, page 255. From the entry tableword
  • Cloudy insight aside, the emo-phobes write catchy songs with a pop-punk flavor.2005 January 20, Chelsea Mueller, “The Letter Kills”, in Phoenix New Times. From the entry emophobe
  • Children, too, were said to be naturally drawn to the "fetchy, catchy poster."2001, Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, Tity de Vries, The American Metropolis, page 80. From the entry fetchy
  • Its slow march tune was catchy, and its lyrics fitted Berlin's melancholy mood.1946 January 21, “Music: Berlin Hit”, in Time. From the entry slow march
  • It's catchy; it has become my signature line!"2024 May 22, Ruanni Tupas, Investigating Unequal Englishes: Understanding, Researching and Analysing Inequalities of the Englishes of the…. From the entry good good study, day day up
  • It sounded catchy, a tad exotic, even fun, he said.2022 June 22, John Flesher, “A ‘copi’ fillet? Illinois hopes new name for ‘invasive carp’ will convince diners”, in PBS. From the entry butterfin
  • A crisp beat, a crazy catchy hook and memorable verses leave listeners struggling to stop themselves from dancing.2021 December 14, “The Diamondback’s top 21 songs of 2021”, in The Diamondback. From the entry egoboost
  • After a flamboyant snare drum roll intro, the catchy plinky-plonky piano melody is joined by lolloping xylophone and flutes.2016 October 31, Neil McKim, “80 Years of TV theme tunes”, in BBC Music Magazine. From the entry lollop
  • For instance, a Nandamuri Balakrishna film is incomplete without punch dialogues – those with attitude, catchy slogans, rhymes and alliterations.2016 March 2, Suhas Yellapantula, “Punch patakas for men only”, in The New Indian Express, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Express Publications…. From the entry punch dialogue
  • I didn’t have time to think of catchy phrases.2009, Leigh Bridger, Soul Catcher, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry Harry Potterish
  • It is a catchy name isn't it?2008, Joyce Carol Oates, My Sister, My Love, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry Skyler
  • Their Sauronesque motto—Join us, and we can rule the Middle East together—doesn't have quite the catchy ring it once did.2008, Chronicles, volume 32, page 36. From the entry Sauronesque
  • "Bitter Sweet" is the best song on the album with its catchy "Let's go to Paradise, Jack" refrain.1988 December 18, Christopher Wittke, “Why I Loved Marc Almond From The Minute I First Read About Him”, in Gay Community News, volume 16…. From the entry clubland
  • What she does best is to take highly verbal, lyric-centered songs and make them musical, catchy, and singable.1981 February 14, Maida Tilchen, “Alix Living With Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 18. From the entry singable
  • It is practically a comic opera, possessing a splenditude of the daintiest and most catchy music of the season.1901 November 29, “[Amusements.] That Funny Girl from Paris.””, in Evening Report, volume XII, number 24, Lebanon, Pa., page 4, column 2. From the entry splenditude
  • Extremely stupid but extremely catchy, with the squelchiest synth I’ve ever heard, it slaps in the simplest way a song can slap.2025 December 25, Claire Biddles, “Paranoia, pop-dubstep and perfectly odd gems: the best old music we discovered this year”, in The…. From the entry slap
  • He lingered for a few minutes, vacantly watching a bootylicious black girl bump and grind to Pink’s catchy smash, “Get the Party Started.”2004, Jon Jeffrey, Boyfriend Material, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry bootylicious
  • "It's not about having a catchy strap line, it's about 'why do I come to work every day?' Am I just here to go 'your train is over there'?2023 January 25, Cem Davis tells Nick Brodrick, “A warm 'Waterloo family' welcome”, in RAIL, number 975, page 38. From the entry big
  • Self-mythology has always been part of The Darkness’ shtick, but here Hawkins and crew forget to back it up with music catchy enough to transcend the solipsism.2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry solipsism
  • With the slightly nasal, melodic whine of Wooten’s crystal clear vocals this song has a catchy sound to it that guarantees that it has potential to be an ear-bug.2004 March 8, Cameron J. Woods, “‘Bloody lovely’ music: New band worth a little money”, in The Daily Collegian, volume CXIV, number 1…. From the entry crystal clear
  • With all due respect to the guy who came up with our current city motto, The “Crossroads of America,” it's time for something a little catchier.[1995 December, “What's My Line?”, in Indianapolis Monthly, volume 19, number 5, Emmis Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 106. From the entry Crossroads of America
  • Fun is the doughboy's pal—that's why he wrote and sings "K-K-K-Katy"—the song of songs, with a zippy, catchy melody and those beautifully simple words stammered by Katy's tongue-tied beau.1918 September 7, “Three Hits from Song Headquarters [advertisement]”, in John C[hristian] Freund, editor, The Music Trades, volume LVI…. From the entry zippy
  • This ‘multi-breadbasket failure’ leads to mass starvation, enforced migration and a breakdown in law and order all around the world—encapsulated in the catchy little acronym INTHE: Inevitable Near-Term Human Extinction!2020, Jonathon Porritt, Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry INTHE

Meaning of catchy

  1. adjective Instantly appealing and memorable.
  2. adjective Tending to catch or ensnare; entangling.
  3. adjective Consisting of, or occurring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable.

Full definition of catchy

Questions about catchy in a sentence

How do you use catchy in a sentence?
Catchy is used as an adjective. For example: “Eric wrote a catchy tune to play on his acoustic guitar while Alyssa plays the drums.”
What is a short sentence with catchy?
“a catchy question”
What does catchy mean?
Catchy means instantly appealing and memorable.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catchy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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