Example Sentences

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She shows me her collection of vintage fountain pens, telling me she's "very fetishistic about stationery".

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Still, for all its attractively appointed torpor, “Corsage” offers a provocative retort to the fetishistic depictions of Elisabeth that have become commodified in Austria over the past 125 years.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2023

Like Monica, these are women with struggles that are manifested physically in bodies that are strong, resilient and — instructively — not hypersexualized or turned into fetishistic spectacles for the viewer.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2020

I’ve never wanted to be the fat girl of someone’s dreams – it feels both fetishistic and not connected to who I am or how I see myself.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2020

This fetishistic tendency was very slightly developed in California, and this in spite of—or as an Americanist could more properly say on account of—the generally rude and primitive condition of culture.

From The Religion of the Indians of California by Kroeber, A. L.