fetching
Example Sentences
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“You look absolutely fetching, Lizzie. The way you’ve wrapped Willa’s silk scarf around your head is lovely. And with her big sunglasses and lipstick you could be a famous actress. Or a spy.”
From Literature
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But call screening operates more like a CEO’s assistant, fetching information before connecting them.
“It wasn’t easy fetching the things for supper, what with my knees and swollen feet. I had to resort to drastic measures to keep the house fed.”
From Literature
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After the recent rally, the pharma sector looks closer to being fairly priced, fetching about 16 times forward earnings, which is slightly higher than its five-year average.
The medical-device contract development and manufacturing sector has been a hotbed for deal activity in recent years—with companies fetching higher multiples to their earnings and revenue in those transactions than Integer’s current implied multiple.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.