How to Use fetish in a Sentence

fetish

noun
  • He wore a fetish to ward off evil spirits.
  • He has a fetish for secrecy.
  • So what’s up with the foot fetish?
    — Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • The analog fetish is good for books.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That’s where that twisted fetish came from.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The name speaks for itself, who wouldn’t want a little eye fetish?
    — Teen Vogue, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Maybe not so much when his breast fetish corrupts a kid’s game of telephone.
    — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There's been some weird requests in terms of fetishes and that kind of thing.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Inside, the horse theme almost comes across as a fetish, at least for me.
    — New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2025
  • But Thiel isn’t just one more investor with a Tolkien fetish.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
  • Yet city leaders can’t stop themselves from giving in to the brand fetish.
    — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 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
  • Her fingertips travel to the lone whisker and then caress it like a fetish.
    — Lisa Miller, The Cut, 8 July 2018
  • Must even our pleasure gardens be subject to the human fetish for more?
    — Manjula Martin, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • This is not a podcast that makes a fetish of passing along the latest poll results.
    — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
  • None of us seems able to stop this labeling fetish, certainly not me.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Scarcely a speech or segment went by in which a fetish wasn’t made of immigrants.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But does all of this pandemic fuss make 2021 peak fetish then?
    — Leigh Cuen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Her fetish for vinyl records ranged from early ragtime blues to rare and obscure rock en español.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Bengston’s glamorous yet banged up Dentos run finish fetish through a ringer.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Thankfully, the creepy foot-fetish guys are fewer in numbers these days.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • No need to make a fetish out of authenticity.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025
  • To me, this idea of fetish, fantasy, body-mod — all of that just goes together.
    — Michael Cuby, Them., 23 Sep. 2025
  • People have opened up about love affairs, fetishes, guilty pleasures and crimes large and small.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Only one of them has a fetish for the fetid stink of porta potties, but the other one has their weird kinks too.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Not a performance review or a trip to the dentist (unless that’s your fetish).
    — Anna Pulley, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • 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

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