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How to use catch-all in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word catch-all? Here are some examples.

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They are catch-all phrases that perhaps do not speak the intricacy of what they really mean.
Optics is a catch-all term for the binoculars and scopes so essential to bird watching.
Once this term began to be used, specificity disappeared and it became a catch-all phrase for all problematic Nigerian metalwork.
It's not, and it shouldn't be used as a kind of catch-all term to mean a big, powerful country.
We must resist the temptation to use terrorism as a catch-all phrase for all serious domestic or international crimes.
Restructuring is a catch-all term, used by companies in trouble who need to change or risk losing business as well as successful ones who want to keep their edge.
Its eggy, lightly sweet base is a perfect catch-all for summer fruits, especially those of the soft, fleshy variety.
Otherwise, your in-box will become a catch-all tray where things go when you want to postpone making a decision.
The Contemporary World Cinema category is generally a catch-all and a crapshoot.
Addressing this problem is no easy matter, not because of its global dimensions and its Sisyphean predilections, but because there is no catch-all solution.
When it was first announced, I thought it was a catch-all visit designed to accomplish several objectives at once.
A catch-all clause forbidding the award of the cup to anyone wearing a white shirt would be more sincere.
It would seem that it has become a catch-all excuse and is employed even when not applicable.
At present most cases are brought under the catch-all heading of breach of the peace, which means repeated offences can be overlooked on sentencing.
On the rare occasion anyone asks what I am, I tell them I'm a Non-denominational spiritualist, which is a nice catch-all term which gets a laugh and covers all the bases.
It seems as though the government has used this budget bill as something of a catch-all.
It is important that CSR, as a subject, should not be seen as a catch-all for everything that everyone wants businesses to do better.
Houses that don't have catch-all closets or rooms in which the inhabitants can dump outdoor stuff always seem sinister to me.
A catch-all address is an e-mail address on your domain which receives all e-mails sent to a non-existing e-mail account on your domain.
Claims: This catch-all term is commonly used to describe negotiations over lands, resources and self-government.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The window-sill was a wide one, and Johnny, I found, used it as a catch-all.
It seemed to have been designed as a catch-all for everything that can damage it.
But it was a desert outpost then, a catch-all for the human drift which every whirlwind of discovery sweeps along.
The wagon was quickly taken apart and pieces of wire found in the closet which was a catch-all.
That closet was a catch-all for all manner of odds and ends.
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