Sentence examples for fetching up on from inspiring English sources

With only a handful of low-key resorts, there was never going to be much risk of the Essex's hapless crew fetching up on a jarring parade of neon-signed shops peddling water-wings or advertising jet-skis for hire.

So on this 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez "fetching up" on Bligh Reef, I light a candle.

Because a complete emotional expression may stride across several sentences, and may fetch-up on any word in dialogue.

Shuttled from one exploitation to the other, they eventually fetch up on the quick sands of northern England as the dark water creeps in to cover their van.

He managed a few more strokes and fetched up on a spit downstream.

And so the Endeavour limped on, until it fetched up on a sandbank near the shore.

Shira Camp is where we fetched up on that second night.

Agnes fetches up on a river bank beside the corpse of Father Damien Modeste, a priest drowned on his way to an Ojibwe mission.

But he won La Liga in May and he has now fetched up on a piece of paper from down the back of Van Gaal's sofa.

The family smuggled themselves across the shifting Polish border in a horsedrawn cart and fetched up on the blasted outskirts of Warsaw.

Later, the boy fetches up on an island populated entirely by meerkats, those magical creatures with a guardsman's posture and the dark-ringed eyes of all-night sentry duty.