Sentence examples for fetched a high from inspiring English sources

One item that fetched a high price was an 18-karat gold necklace with charms shaped like 45-r.p.m. records.

It fetched a high bid of $646,000, about $60,000 more than the last mortgage on the property.

Another sculpture that fetched a high price last night was Maillol's "Night," conceived in 1902 and cast posthumously.

The Giacometti probably fetched a high price because such large and important examples of his work rarely come onto the market.

In ancient Egypt cassia and cinnamon fetched a high price because they were essential for embalming; so too were anise, marjoram and cumin, used to rinse out the innards of the worthy dead.

For example, a three-bedroom house near Turner Field, where the Atlanta Braves baseball team plays, fetched a high bid late last month of $134,000 at an auction by the bank that took possession of it.

Under complicated regulations then in place, newly found oil fetched a higher price than older oil.

Those who did not cry or faint fetched a higher price at market.

While the company spoke with a number of suitors in addition to Energy Transfer and Williams, it did not run a formal auction that could have fetched a higher initial price.

When the bundles were advertised as "get a 1901 penny free," the prices of the solo older pennies suffered; when the two-penny bundle was not billed as including a freebie, the loose pennies fetched a higher price.

Male catamites fetched a higher price than female concubines since pederasty with a teenage boy was seen as a mark of elite status, regardless of sodomy being repugnant to sexual norms.