Sentence examples for couldn't fetch from inspiring English sources

This January Sapir put the home back on the market for the $50 million it couldn't fetch even during the New York real estate euphoria of 2006.

We could not go to the farms, we could not fetch water or collect firewood.

He woke, certain that Freddie had been in his dream, although he could not fetch up a narrative and was left only with the exhausted sense of having not completed a necessary task.

Even before it was acquired by Rio Tinto, Alcan had put up its entire packaging unit for sale, but it could not fetch bids for the whole operation throughout 2007 and 2008.

I couldn't get out of the house to fetch some water from the standpipe because the moment you come out of the house, people would be looking at you.

It's a good point, and there were moments in the stage version of Curious Incident that I found uncomfortable, such as when the audience guffawed at Christopher's remark that one of the children at his special school is more stupid than a dog, and probably couldn't even fetch a stick (it wasn't Christopher's words that bothered me – it was the dress circle's response).

Forbes: As some people are trying to sell their homes, they are doing so at a loss, either because the mortgage is worth more than the house or because it won't fetch what it could have on the market.

The guitar couldn't have fetched $100 at a pawnshop, but Mr. Drumm played it with sympathy, using its eccentricities.

Selling between $99 and $199 after carrier subsidies, these replace a generation of fatter smartphones with fewer features that couldn't be fetched for less than $400.

This is vital in order not to devolve into: "You wouldn't fetch my leg so I could take a leak" type jiggery-pokery.

And he can't fetch or chase without getting winded.