fetish

Example Sentences

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Instead, Fehlbaum fills the frame with his fetish for tactile objects: stopwatches, soldering irons, stacks of sandwiches, dot-matrix printers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

He’d go on to learn the craft under an L.A. fetish latex designer before starting Bustedbrand on his own terms.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

Komfo Anokye, the man said to be responsible for the tree, was a powerful fetish priest - a person believed to act as a mediator between the spirit and living.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2023

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

The Masks appeared demoralized by the destruction of their most powerful fetish.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer