How to Use fetish in a Sentence

fetish

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  • He wore a fetish to ward off evil spirits.
  • He has a fetish for secrecy.
  • The rape/bestial fetish is framed as a fantasy imagined by a woman, curiously beginning as an assault.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 31 July 2024
  • Or the progressive public, with its identitarian fetishes, its class-agnostic multiculturalism that is all gums and no teeth.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The showrunners have a beer fetish (which gets worse in Season 5) and so beer—not the ethanol tanker—is the cure.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But only a fool with a fetish for dunce caps would pick against Bill and Brady in Week 1.
    — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • There's been some weird requests in terms of fetishes and that kind of thing.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The name speaks for itself, who wouldn’t want a little eye fetish?
    — Teen Vogue, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Native girls with clients willing to pay for that fetish.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Maybe not so much when his breast fetish corrupts a kid’s game of telephone.
    — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
  • It’s like a fetish, like how people like being whipped.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Yet city leaders can’t stop themselves from giving in to the brand fetish.
    — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But does all of this pandemic fuss make 2021 peak fetish then?
    — Leigh Cuen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • There’s one guy who has a uvula fetish, the little dangling thing in your throat.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Shots in the shows of bare feet were presented as evidence of a fetish.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • The fetish for upscale tiny houses has been around long enough for some of the novelty to wear off.
    — Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 30 Jan. 2018
  • But the band is also wary of a DIY scene where obscurity is a kind of fetish.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • This is not a podcast that makes a fetish of passing along the latest poll results.
    — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Her fingertips travel to the lone whisker and then caress it like a fetish.
    — Lisa Miller, The Cut, 8 July 2018
  • Who but Hemingway would have zeroed in like this? Death—the sight of it, the smell of it, the immanence of it—was his fetish.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Taylor-Joy’s Sandie is opaque, but in the right way: the sacrificial fetish in a vortex of fear.
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Handles are a minor fetish for him—the point of contact, where a person holds on to a building.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • At Gagosian, the fetish for discretion is so strong that the gallery’s staffers are sometimes left in the dark about transactions.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Big tech has made a fetish of efficiency, of data, of the wisdom of the market.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018
  • The two share a love scene in the movie, and while filming it, Winslet made the surprising discovery about her costar’s foot fetish.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, PEOPLE.com, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The person who first put A/C vents at the bottom of seats in the car either never wore open-toe shoes or has a blue foot fetish.
    — Meredith Bodgas and Alexis Hobbs, Woman's Day, 24 June 2015
  • For me, balloon fetish is all about tension and release.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 22 May 2019
  • Scarcely a speech or segment went by in which a fetish wasn’t made of immigrants.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But the movie also points out that these products have become a save-the-world fetish for tech companies.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Not a performance review or a trip to the dentist (unless that’s your fetish).
    — Anna Pulley, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2022

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