How to Use fetish in a Sentence

fetish

noun

• He wore a fetish to ward off evil spirits.
• He has a fetish for secrecy.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Under the guidance of the showrunner, Stefano Sollima, the show makes a fetish of low light and shadow.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2016
• None of us seems able to stop this labeling fetish, certainly not me.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018
• Bengston’s glamorous yet banged up Dentos run finish fetish through a ringer.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• The pandemic hasn’t put a damper on fashion’s Diana fetish.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• But Pitt saved the biggest zinger for director Quentin Tarantino, who has been known to have someone of a, well, foot fetish.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024