How to Use gotcha in a Sentence

gotcha

noun

• The program has a few gotchas in store for unsuspecting computer users.
• And the people who want to do gotchas on me only show the first part.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• In the game of gotcha, this breastfeeding mom just won.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 8 Aug. 2017
• Now the press has its gotcha, and it’s Donald Trump Jr. Golly.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• 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
• But these offerings also come with gotchas of their own.
  — Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 29 June 2019
• 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
• Quite a few people flagged her tweet as a gotcha, but there was nothing surprising about it.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
• 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
• This new wireless-data offering comes with a few gotchas.
  — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019
• The action of being frenetic and trying to search for your legally winning gotcha was old hat.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Another gotcha in the above fine print: This card (and many others) pays loss-of-use only if verified by the rental company’s log.
  — Ed Perkins, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
• We may be too obsessed with gotcha questions and viral moments to understand the contours of this opening-gun event.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 June 2019
• The whole enterprise speaks to a mind-set more about political gotcha than journalism.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Greece gotcha: The Sea Turtles hacking group breached Greece's top level domain registrar.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 13 July 2019
• But the biggest gotcha is likely to be a detail that many consumers are overlooking in their eagerness to bank the payment: The pool of money to fund the payments is topped at $31 million.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2019
• In a movie world of bantamweight scares, designed primarily to get you to the next gotcha, writer-director Ari Aster is an outlier.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2019
• Claire and Jack rush into her home office expecting something awful, but gotcha!
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020
• These include the Latina Lesbians series, portraits paired with handwritten personal statements of strength and dignity, the best of which has the gotcha air of a Virginia Slims ad from the era.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• 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
• Anti-American nihilism and hopeless racial cynicism give the show its gotcha.
  — Armond White, National Review, 26 Aug. 2020
• His lack of basic human decency isn’t a gotcha to Democrat me or a victory for Republican you.
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 17 May 2018
• The gotcha -- if it can be called such -- involves getting users to post a legalistic and bizarrely syntaxed copypasta that purports to prevent the tech giant from using one's content.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2019
• In essence, the courts were playing gotcha with the President—accusing him of saying one thing in public while his Administration was saying something else in court.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2017
• Equally disagreeable is the two-year gotcha, which is the incredibly long time that unpaid creditors have after death of the owner to drag the property back into the probate estate and force its sale.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2020
• These gotchas are no accident: They are designed to limit the companies’ financial exposure from things that break often or that can be costly to fix or replace.
  — SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
• Of course, in every hearing since 1987, Senators have asked gotcha questions and nominees have given evasive answers.
  — Jeffrey Rosen, WSJ, 13 July 2018

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024