Sentence examples for Fetch a box from inspiring English sources

She is working on getting a Labrador retriever, Devon, to fetch a box of cereal from a counter and place it in a straw bag.

It was a plummy time when a top editor could arrive in Paris and think nothing of sending a staffer from Paris to London to fetch a necktie he had left in his hotel room, or of sending a minion flying off to fetch a box of his favorite cigars, or of having articles about the Nicaraguan contras flown to his Martha's Vineyard house so he could make sure the political tilt was right.

Simon Spurr stood on his tippy toes to fetch a shoe box from a wardrobe in his West Village apartment.

Peppers, he said, fetch about $15 a box.

A Chinese Kalashnikov fetches a mere $50, a box of 9mm bullets $2.

He spotted Schulze at spring training, fetched his card from a box in his locker and snagged the autograph.

Only the week before, a UNICEF project officer, Bertha Bade, based in Arawa, got stranded between rivers en route to fetch a shipment of school –in-a-box.

Yet, that's just what I baked for my sweetheart many Valentines ago, cutting the demure little cookies into hearts and tying them into a box with a fetching red ribbon.

When he met his sister, Mona Simpson, a struggling novelist, as an adult, he berated her for not wearing clothes that were "fetching enough" and then sent her a box of Issey Miyake pantsuits "in flattering colors," she said.

Right now, he's harvesting organic blueberries and selling them at $40 for a 3.3-pound box; in July, at the peak of the blueberry harvest, such a box would most likely fetch only $12.

He couldn't pick it up himself, so he recruited a nearby workman to fetch the insect for him and put it in a box Thorington had.