FETCH in a Sentence

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For FETCH, below is one of 237 sentences:
So these two frauds said they'd go and fetch it up, and have everything square and above-board; and told me to come with a candle.

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 Meanings and Examples of FETCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fetch
 v.  take away or remove; reduce; go or come after and bring or take back
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  'I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King eagerly, and he hurried off.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
2  "Now less fetch the guns and things," said Huck.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
4  The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
5  I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t'other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
6  WE judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
7  Rouse out Bob and Tom, some of you, and fetch the guns.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
8  Mars Buck he loaded up his gun en 'lowed he's gwyne to fetch home a Shepherdson or bust.'
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
9  Your mistake is, that you didn't bring a man with you; that's one mistake, and the other is that you didn't come in the dark and fetch your masks.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
10  If any real lynching's going to be done it will be done in the dark, Southern fashion; and when they come they'll bring their masks, and fetch a man along.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
11  Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV.
12  So these two frauds said they'd go and fetch it up, and have everything square and above-board; and told me to come with a candle.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV.
13  If she was to fetch in help I'd get mixed up in the business before it was done with, I judge.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
14  And when they got to the grave they found they had about a hundred times as many shovels as they wanted, but nobody hadn't thought to fetch a lantern.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX.
15  Your uncle's been up to the town every day to fetch you.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  The duke told him to make himself free and easy, and if anybody ever come meddling around, he must hop out of the wigwam, and carry on a little, and fetch a howl or two like a wild beast, and he reckoned they would light out and leave him alone.
2  He lets them fetch dinner from a cooking-school in the neighborhood.
3  The child displayed great initiative in going to fetch apple from shelf.
4  When the boat was gone the king made me paddle up another mile to a lonesome place, and then he got ashore and says: "Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags.
5  Well, fetch me your portfolio, if you can vouch for its contents being original; but don't pass your word unless you are certain: I can recognise patchwork.
6  You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home any more.
7  "I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!" said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular. "She'd soon fetch it back!"
8  And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner.
9  And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot.
10  Yes, I've come to fetch you.
11  Please fetch the children in for dinner.
12  The painting would fetch millions of dollars if it was sold on the open market.
13  He sent his driver to fetch him a strawberry shake.
14  Liberia — from the elite doyennes who spend their days sending houseboys to the market to fetch oranges for them, all the way to the young boys on Tubman Boulevard who run up to cars hawking plastic bags of ice — used to be a tactile place.
15  The boat struck a shoal and fetched up all standing.