How to Use fetching in a Sentence

fetching

adjective
  • You look very fetching in that outfit.
  • 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
  • Above, Vogue’s shopping guide for the film’s most fetching trends.
    Madeline Fass, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The other, quieter mode, though, is where the album is most fetching.
    Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Fonda smiled and waved, wearing a fetching fire-engine-red coat.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • At 19, Flora was a fetching young woman with a sweet smile.
    Fiona Donovan, Vanity Fair, 30 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Patients were given roles, like finding wood for fires or fetching water.
    WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Most were young adults who had been out fetching water to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
    Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
  • And the task of fetching water, often from faraway places, almost always falls to girls.
    Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Their replacements are often younger, more fetching, less informed, and much cheaper.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • The judges and diners show up, in fancy duds, with Padma sporting what looks like a fetching new haircut.
    oregonlive, 21 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Frankly, the Prada ball would make a fetching handbag, a conversation piece.
    Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • 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
  • Her favorite hobby is relaxing on the couch with her family after a day of fetching tennis balls.
    NOLA.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Initially, Ron is consigned to the records room, fetching files for other officers.
    Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 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
  • But by the light of day, he can be seen hunched over a stove or doing laundry or fetching water—all of which are traditionally women’s work.
    Raj Patel, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Even the Passat outsells it by a factor of 7-to-1, despite being far less fetching.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Which is too bad, because Cloudy with a Chance of Stormi is a really fetching title.
    Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
  • Most of their play, however, mimicked the adults’ work—making fires, fetching water, tending the animals.
    Erin Craig, National Geographic, 28 July 2020
  • In the mid-2010s, the unpaid, coffee-fetching masses appeared to be rising up.
    J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The brand offers some great products at sensible prices and today Anker announced new true wireless earbuds in a range of five fetching colors.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 10 June 2021

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