Sentence examples for fetch of from inspiring English sources

Intimations of wilderness within the fetch of suburbia.

Biak is an island to the far north east of Papua, exposed directly to the fetch of the Pacific.

The storm was part of a weather disturbance that extended all the way across the Pacific and permitted the winds a fetch of thousands of miles.

A fetch of perhaps six hundred to eight hundred miles, with winds of gale velocity, is required to generate the highest ocean waves.

Storm waves, it is true, may grow twice as high, and if a full gale blows long enough in one direction to produce a fetch of several hundred miles, the resulting waves may be even higher.

Friday we head to some of the more remote coral reefs in Indonesia, the reefs of Biak, Papua, on the far northeastern shore, exposed directly to the large fetch of the Pacific Ocean and reputed to have reefs of spectacular biodiversity.

This traversal can lead to several different narratives and a film then becomes an exercise in a de-centralized, inconclusive, fetching of material.

It's not just the small plastic figures that fetch out-of-this-world prices.

But several of these artists still fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction.

You can also liven up training sessions by including a game of fetch or tug-of-war.

Paintings by Russian-born artist Rothko often fetch tens of millions of pounds.