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
• This new wireless-data offering comes with a few gotchas.
  — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And, of course, accusations supply endless gotcha moments to generate clicks and feed social media.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• The other gotcha for creative professionals is that Adobe's photo and video editing software does not support Linux, the operating system that ships with Thelio.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 5 June 2019
• Yet, when the political media isn’t preoccupied with a gotcha du jour, pundits, partisans, and journalists have seemed downright giddy to let their minions know that the United States now has the most coronavirus cases in the world.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
• The biggest gotcha that many businesses will need to overcome with cloud services is the reliance on outside connectivity—so the connection between your business and the Internet needs to be more robust than it would otherwise be.
  — Rob Pegoraro, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024