How to Use fetching in a Sentence
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Above, Vogue’s shopping guide for the film’s most fetching trends.
—Madeline Fass, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2018
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This new one is far more fetching, with a style that needs no apologies.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2022
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Or that in the right hands, duct tape can be fashioned into a fetching prom dress?
—Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 25 Feb. 2021
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Travis who’s left nauseous at all of the blood while the team just keeps on fetching water and chopping logs.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022
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But the fact that any of them managed it at all hints that humans can’t take all the credit for our pets’ fetching feats.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
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The singer’s fierce and fetching namesake line is available Wednesday at Fabletics.com.
—Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 12 May 2017
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Her first job with U.P.I., in London, was fetching coffee.
—New York Times, 6 May 2021
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Each fall, as foliage turns and Vermont teems with tourists, the state’s farmers take pride in showing off their fetching fields of hay and corn.
—Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
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In the mid-2010s, the unpaid, coffee-fetching masses appeared to be rising up.
—J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2021
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Fonda smiled and waved, wearing a fetching fire-engine-red coat.
—Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
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The judges and diners show up, in fancy duds, with Padma sporting what looks like a fetching new haircut.
—oregonlive, 21 May 2021
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And the task of fetching water, often from faraway places, almost always falls to girls.
—Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
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And is there any deal quite so fetching as a big, beautiful TV for way less than its original price?
—Lee Neikirk, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
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The routine is always the same: Check what’s on display, find the most fetching option and consider guests’ tastes (and the contents of my wallet).
—David Tanis, New York Times, 15 June 2018
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Even the Passat outsells it by a factor of 7-to-1, despite being far less fetching.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2021
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These fetching flapjacks are dressed with honey crème anglaise and crowned with lemon brûlée wheels, making for a short stack that is sweet and elegant.
—Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 4 May 2021
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Most were young adults who had been out fetching water to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
—Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
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Which is too bad, because Cloudy with a Chance of Stormi is a really fetching title.
—Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
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This smart box of tricks is now in its third iteration and is finished in a very fetching shade of red that’s more crimson than scarlet.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
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They are sold in an wide range of colors and sport elegant fluted edges — and usually have a price tag to match those fetching charms.
—Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2021
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Up close, at least, the final game's structures look fetching and otherworldly on the Xbox Series X.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
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Its stark lines, the gothic tracery of its wings, the fetching retro color scheme of orange and black and its ruby eyes all suggest some arts and crafts jewel.
—Washington Post, 26 May 2021
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Most fetching are the black translucent panels overlaying either end of the spindle grille, or what remains of it.
—Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2021
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Frankly, the Prada ball would make a fetching handbag, a conversation piece.
—Washington Post, 12 June 2021
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Two rooms are given to Matisse’s Swimming Pool cutout from 1952, with a fetching video showing the artist and his assistant making it.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
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Patients were given roles, like finding wood for fires or fetching water.
—WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
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And the leading Canadian whisky brand is Crown Royal, a blend that comes packaged in a fetching purple bag (the brand can afford this extra flair, based on the numbers).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2022
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Smith is one of many actors, especially women, to be nurtured by both the Stratford Festival and this fetching city of the same name.
—Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
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Her clothes — a fetching mix of glamorous evening gowns and colorful daytime dresses with matching hats — are part of her appeal.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2020
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Soprano Ashley Fabian made a fetching Ginevra, portraying in full voice the excitement and joy of her betrothal, and later the confusion and horror of her mad scene.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
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