How to Use fetch up in a Sentence

fetch up

verb
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  • The birds fetched up to $600 a pop on the black market.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The old iPhones, which could fetch up to $640, have been auctioned to buyers in Asia, who resell them at a markup, Mr. Maldonado said.
    — Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 11 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Christie’s estimates the flight manual could fetch up to $9 million.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 July 2019
  • 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
  • Houses in the upscale seaside neighborhood of Foz do Douro can fetch up to 3 million euros ($3.26 million).
    — Lana Bortolot, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The resale prices on any of these shoes are insane, with some iterations of the VaporMax models fetching up to $1,500 on the aftermarket.
    — Jake Woolf, GQ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • During the past decade skins have surged in value—fetching up to $400 each—as China’s donkey population has dwindled.
    — National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The jacket was part of a trove of personal memorabilia and historic NASA items from his career and was expected to fetch up to $2 million.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 26 July 2022
  • Analysts estimate that the sale of the animal-health unit, the smallest of the group’s four businesses, could fetch up to €7 billion ($8 billion) while a sale of Coppertone and Dr. Scholl’s could raise roughly €1 billion.
    — Ruth Bender, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Twenty tablets of Thyrosafe, whose active ingredient is potassium iodide, can fetch up to $175 on eBay.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Just 1 percent is sold as frozen heads, although a single large salmon head can fetch up to $5 a pound at Beijing supermarkets, according to previous reports.
    — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • In Beijing’s Xicheng district, site of a number of top schools, a unit near a desirable school can fetch up to 70% more than a comparable unit not near such a school, according to property brokers.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The department says on its Facebook page that third-row seats are easily removed, bear no traceable serial numbers and can fetch up to $1,000 in online sales or at flea markets or salvage yards.
    — Stephen English, star-telegram, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Antique bamboo tripod side tables such as this are highly valued amongst collectors and can fetch up to $500 at local antique stores or through online dealers.
    — Anna Logan, Country Living, 11 July 2023
  • Prior to this Friday’s sale, only two other Daytonas worn and owned by the Hollywood legend himself have been sold at auction, and both variations are expected to fetch up to $1 million.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 8 June 2023
  • Some analysts have suggested that Unilever’s spreads business could fetch up to $8.5 billion in a sale, while Akzo’s specialty-chemicals business could be worth a similar amount.
    — Ben Dummett, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Collectors are hungry for ceramics artist Jake Clark’s tributes to storied American hangouts, resulting in pieces that fetch up to five figures.
    — Kyra Breslin, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • The manuscript alone is expected to fetch up to $1.2 million, given its unique significance and status as the most valuable Conan Doyle item ever offered at auction, a Sotheby’s statement said.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • This particular variation was only produced in limited quantities and is expected to fetch up to a quarter million dollars at Bonhams’ upcoming sale.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2023

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