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fetch up
verb
- informal.intr; usually foll by at or in to arrive (at) or end up (in)
to fetch up in New York
- intr nautical to stop suddenly, as from running aground
to fetch up on a rock
- slang.to vomit (food, etc)
- dialect.tr to rear (children, animals, etc)
Example Sentences
A rare Medieval bishop's ring found by a retired firefighter in a Norfolk field is expected to fetch up to £18,000 at auction.
Within months, Carole's house had been completely cleared out and sold for £355,000 - a low price, the neighbours thought, considering other houses in the street were fetching up to half a million.
A medal from Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery is due to be auctioned and could fetch up to £3,000.
It estimated that one of the items could fetch up to £4,000 at auction, while others could also go for thousands of pounds.
The feather, initially expected to fetch up to $3,000, broke the previous record which was for a feather of the same species by 450%, the Webb's Auction House said.
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