How to Use fetch up in a Sentence

fetch up

verb
  • The copy desk was the place where reporters fetched up once their legs or livers gave out.
    — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2018
  • Some puppies can fetch up to $2,000.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Christie’s estimates the flight manual could fetch up to $9 million.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 July 2019
  • The auction house expects the bones could fetch up to $8 million, which would make the skeleton one of the most valuable in the world.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 July 2022
  • The seats are easily removed and can fetch up to $1,000, police say.
    — Stephen English, star-telegram, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The watch is only one of three examples known to exist and is expected to fetch up to $5 million.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2022
  • My greatest pleasure is to fetch up to a race on a weekend, to get myself up some great hills, and to zoom down their sides with unfettered joy.
    — Rose George, The New York Review of Books, 10 Apr. 2020
  • And rich countries have taken to including the cost of dealing with the refugees who fetch up on their shores as part of their foreign-aid spending.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Bourdain will occasionally fetch up at some fancy eatery, but the heart of any cuisine is formed on the street, or in the country, or along the sea.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • However, they are now being sold on the market for exorbitant prices and can fetch up to $1,000 each.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The fossil could fetch up to $20 million, according to Sotheby’s, the auction house handling the sale.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Custom Halloween costumes can fetch up to $4,000 and have to be ordered by July.
    — Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Now, after months of research, experts say the legendary artist himself painted the piece—which could fetch up to $18 million at auction later this year.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Because Tavares could fetch up to $11 million per season on the open market, the Coyotes’ chances at landing the elite center are slim.
    — Richard Morin, azcentral, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Thieves have often targeted Picasso’s paintings, which have fetched up to $179 million at auction.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Messal noted that a single Roman denarius can fetch up to 130 euros depending on its condition.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, a short poem Austen wrote in 1811 satirizing the medical practices at the time could fetch up to $150,000.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025

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