fetish

Example Sentences

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Imelda Marcos’ fetish for fiendishly expensive shoes was a running gag in the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Ranging in age from toddlers to teens, these girls speak with a moral clarity that cuts through any defense of this country’s carceral fetish.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

In both films, guns become truly dangerous when they become a fetish: an object worshipped for its supposed power and symbolic meaning.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Hull parent Will Taylor criticised Genesis Pre-School for allowing access to Grandad's Pride, which he said showed a man in "leather fetish gear".

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023

He always made a fetish of lateness, to indicate that his life was crammed with many things, all of them more important than I was, and today is no exception.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood