Sentence examples for be fetching from inspiring English sources

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be fetching

verb

To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

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Ms. Graham's Gray may be fetching, but she tries so strenuously to charm that her ditziness begins to pall.

At Wembley they would be fetching £1,000 but here a lot of intrepid England fans are getting lucky with late acquisitions.

Now Mrs. Garcia saw a raw talent with comic timing and writing skills who happened to be fetching enough to pull off imitations of Keira Knightley and Salma Hayek.

And gardening takes precedence over art at times – Childe Hassam is surely here only to show what American coastal planting looks like, and likewise Joaquín Sorolla's trailing geraniums, which may be fetching but are botanical hackwork.

But Andrea makes no bones about the fashion business being beneath her, or that her true calling is not to be fetching tall lattes for Anna/Miranda but to be supplying high-minded prose for The New Yorker.

That something turned out to be fetching jersey tops and halter-neck tunics worn with womanly skirts or mannish pinstripe trousers, and shown with black fishnet leggings and those spiked-heel shoes that never fail to excite the customers at a Pigalle bust-and-leg revue.

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Until 1681 water had to be fetched from pumped wells in the Canongate.

These split long instructions cannot be fetched simultaneously, which creates a bottleneck for VLIW architectures.

Data and instructions will have to be fetched from memory, resulting in memory bus usage.

All required attributes would have to be fetched by the provider during policy evaluation.

Each identifier represents a publication stored in PubMed and can be "fetched" as an abstract.

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