Sentence examples for miles to fetch from inspiring English sources

They often walk many miles to fetch wood, or collect cow dung, to use as fuel.

They are forced to walk for miles to fetch water so they don't "contaminate" pumps and wells; local midwives even refuse to deliver their "unclean" babies.

The girls and boys sitting at school desks in Bangladesh, the women who no longer have to walk for miles to fetch water in Nigeria and the millions of children who no longer die from preventable diseases are the proof of that.

Instead of getting an education, Violet walks 2 miles to fetch water three times a day.

They gladly would have walked 20 miles to fetch her a can of Bustelo, if she'd asked.

He modified the small boat, James Caird, that allowed Shackleton and five men (including McNish) to make a voyage of hundreds of miles to fetch help for the rest of the crew.

She would often wake up at 4am, search for firewood, walk at least a mile to fetch water, work in a field, attend school and go to bed hungry.

Colin Montgomerie has given himself the chance to qualify for another major after a 900-mile drive to fetch a new putter.

Although he was alone when he fell ill at two o'clock in the morning a non-Catholic woman made a 26 mile journey to fetch a priest to conduct the Last Rites.

People who live permanently hungry, racked by parasites and forced to walk miles each day to fetch water, are more numerous now than ever before.

The project focuses on how women are often required to walk several miles a day to fetch water supplies, impacting their ability to work full-time.