Collocations for "fetch"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "fetch" in context.
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fetch
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- let me fetch a [pen, notepad, glass]
- fetch a [ball, frisbee, stick]
- UK: fetch the [mail, newspaper]
- UK: fetch your [phone, keys, wallet, purse]
- UK: fetch [her, my children] from the [store, school]
- UK: going to fetch my [coat, jacket, bag]
- UK: go and fetch (my)
- UK: fetch it from the [hall, bedroom, car, kitchen]
- [was taught, was trained, learned] (how) to fetch
- UK: fetch [some help, a doctor]
- will fetch a [good, high, handsome] price
- fetched a [tidy sum, large profit, lot of money]
- the [horse, painting, car] fetched a [tidy sum]
- [what, the price] it fetched [at auction, under the hammer, on the internet]
- nautical: the [wind, wave] fetch
- nautical: a [1,000] -mile fetch
- nautical: [enormous, open, vast] fetches
- nautical: [enormous] fetches of the [Atlantic, Pacific]
- nautical: [measure, calculate, confirm] the fetch
- nautical: measure the fetch for [waves]
'fetch' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):