Example sentences for: fetching

How can you use “fetching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Finally, excursions turn inland to the fetching hill town of Sintra.

  • USA Today runs its Clinton defense story as the off-lead and goes instead with Michael Jordan's imminent retirement, a story that rates big front play at the NYT and a reefer at the LAT . Another sports story dominates much of the rest of the USAT front: the wildly accelerating prices sports franchises are fetching.

  • Boats like his are now fetching up to five thousand dollars.

  • In describing mechanical contrivances, the Germans continue to use their word Wagen to mean car, as in Volkswagen ; and American English has the compound station wagon , originally a horse vehicle for fetching people at train stations.

  • It is a time-honored perquisite of senior professorship to have students act as minions, fetching books from the library and doing grunt research.


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