How to Use fetching in a Sentence

fetching

adjective
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  • You look very fetching in that outfit.
  • Above, Vogue’s shopping guide for the film’s most fetching trends.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This new one is far more fetching, with a style that needs no apologies.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Or that in the right hands, duct tape can be fashioned into a fetching prom dress?
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Travis who’s left nauseous at all of the blood while the team just keeps on fetching water and chopping logs.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022
  • But the fact that any of them managed it at all hints that humans can’t take all the credit for our pets’ fetching feats.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The singer’s fierce and fetching namesake line is available Wednesday at Fabletics.com.
    — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 12 May 2017
  • Her first job with U.P.I., in London, was fetching coffee.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2021
  • Each fall, as foliage turns and Vermont teems with tourists, the state’s farmers take pride in showing off their fetching fields of hay and corn.
    — Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • In the mid-2010s, the unpaid, coffee-fetching masses appeared to be rising up.
    — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Fonda smiled and waved, wearing a fetching fire-engine-red coat.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The judges and diners show up, in fancy duds, with Padma sporting what looks like a fetching new haircut.
    — oregonlive, 21 May 2021
  • And the task of fetching water, often from faraway places, almost always falls to girls.
    — Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • And is there any deal quite so fetching as a big, beautiful TV for way less than its original price?
    — Lee Neikirk, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The routine is always the same: Check what’s on display, find the most fetching option and consider guests’ tastes (and the contents of my wallet).
    — David Tanis, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • Even the Passat outsells it by a factor of 7-to-1, despite being far less fetching.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2021
  • These fetching flapjacks are dressed with honey crème anglaise and crowned with lemon brûlée wheels, making for a short stack that is sweet and elegant.
    — Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 4 May 2021
  • Most were young adults who had been out fetching water to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Which is too bad, because Cloudy with a Chance of Stormi is a really fetching title.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
  • This smart box of tricks is now in its third iteration and is finished in a very fetching shade of red that’s more crimson than scarlet.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • They are sold in an wide range of colors and sport elegant fluted edges — and usually have a price tag to match those fetching charms.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Up close, at least, the final game's structures look fetching and otherworldly on the Xbox Series X.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Its stark lines, the gothic tracery of its wings, the fetching retro color scheme of orange and black and its ruby eyes all suggest some arts and crafts jewel.
    — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
  • Most fetching are the black translucent panels overlaying either end of the spindle grille, or what remains of it.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Frankly, the Prada ball would make a fetching handbag, a conversation piece.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • Two rooms are given to Matisse’s Swimming Pool cutout from 1952, with a fetching video showing the artist and his assistant making it.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Patients were given roles, like finding wood for fires or fetching water.
    — WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
  • And the leading Canadian whisky brand is Crown Royal, a blend that comes packaged in a fetching purple bag (the brand can afford this extra flair, based on the numbers).
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Smith is one of many actors, especially women, to be nurtured by both the Stratford Festival and this fetching city of the same name.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Her clothes — a fetching mix of glamorous evening gowns and colorful daytime dresses with matching hats — are part of her appeal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2020

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