darning

Example Sentences

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Her first act as a nonworking person: a solo trip to Scotland, where she took a darning workshop and learned how to repair sweaters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The seamstresses in Obama’s lineage worked for white families, making and fixing and darning their clothes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022

"Sometimes they would invite them in and to others they would say 'no, sorry we're busy darning our socks today'."

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2022

In one room, the murals depict scenes from military life: soldiers crouched in combat, donning gas masks, and cleaning weapons and darning socks during downtime.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2018

These tough ratings sat up in bed darning their socks, and insisted on hand-washing their own smalls, which they dried on washing lines improvised from string, suspended along the radiators.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan