The standoff lasted a minute or two, then the ape rocked backward, catching its balance just at the point of falling over.

He would swoop down and catch hold of it just at the point of the upswing.

It caught the man at the point where he was so completely burned that his body crumpled over into the flame and flesh fell off his bones.

Very, very gently, he caught hold of the hieroglyphic strip at the point where the winding ended on the mummy's chest.

Was it an illusion, or had his eyes caught a glimpse of movement at the point where the trail vanished into the reeds?

He paced himself in the beginning, then caught the leaders at the halfway point and passed them with seemingly little effort.

Mr. Gorfain is catching the teenagers at the point that alcohol counselors said they form their drinking habits, in middle and high school.

You're catching him at the right point in the career arc.

She kept pushing the buttons in desperation, one after the other, hoping to catch the right button at the right point.

But we caught one wave at just the right point and it carried us a great distance, past the high, collapsing walls of water.