Example Sentences

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Even famous Los Angeles buildings are fetching roughly half their prepandemic prices.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

"There are works by African artists that are fetching over £1m, and other works by African artists fetching £500,000 that a few years ago were only fetching £10-15,000."

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022

The burgeoning price tags reflect a trend happening across the entertainment industry, including in Hollywood, where production firms launched by Reese Witherspoon, LeBron James, Will Smith and the Russo brothers are fetching astronomical deals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2022

The titles that are fetching the highest prices are typically Nintendo games from the 1980s and 1990s, especially those for the company’s NES console, which came out in 1983.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2021

It is a great consolation to those of us who are husbands that they are fetching such high prices.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 by Various