Sentence examples for fetched up in from inspiring English sources
Because if the director's previous film, The Master, charted the quest for meaning in affluent Eisenhower-era America, then this one shows where the search fetched up, in the fracturing counter-culture of southern California, where LAPD cops moonlight as B-movie actors and the Nation of Islam makes common cause with the Aryan Brotherhood.
A teenage riot grrl, Segarra fetched up in New Orleans having run away from home in the Bronx, criss-crossing the country on freight trains, somewhere between the romantic notion of a hobo and someone in sore need of a drop-in centre.
They had fetched up in Brazil.
Then she fetched up in the studio of Fernand Léger.
This time, he fetched up in Austria, where he was recruited into the French Foreign Legion.
He fetched up in Los Angeles, begging on the streets and sleeping in Dumpsters.
Imagine Coldplay fetching up in New York only to be upbraided for not sounding like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
So in the opening chapter, when a skinny stranger "fetches up in Venice" in 1523, claiming to be David, the lost king of Israel and possibly the messiah, Schama mentions, as if in an aside, that the Jews of Venice were at that time confined to a ghetto, constructed just seven years earlier.
Raymond Chandler fetched up here in 1912, and no other writer really got at the geography and feel and sensuality of the place in the way that he did".
Light Valpolicella-like reds from Bardolino often fetch up in wine bars in Venice.
