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On loan from La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, laid flat in a vitrine, is a flesh-colored silk-chiffon slip dress, its hem beaded with silver lozenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

She shows off large animal heads, including a rat and a bull, and an embroidered dress with a ruffled hem made for the production of the Handel opera "Alcina".

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Already chic, an adjustable drawstring hem and belted detailing at the waist and wrists allows you to style the jacket your way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

The asymmetry of the cut, however, sounded a note of continuation: Ivanka wore a white Oscar de la Renta jacket with an asymmetric handkerchief hem for inauguration day in 2017.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025

Serina chose that moment to pick up the hem of her dress and wring it out on the floor.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

As it enters Assam's vast floodplains, home to some 28 million people and hemmed in by hills, it slows and deposits sediment, fuelling erosion and floods.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

When the park opened in 2006, I thought it seemed too flat and shapeless, too hemmed in by Broadway and Spring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Any new tool needs to be easily triggered, avoiding the lengthy arguments among capitals that have hemmed in European action in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

It was whether federal courts, hemmed in by the modern law of habeas corpus, are permitted to say anything meaningful about that possibility at all.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026

They were hemmed in on either side, with no room to stop.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Begum, who did not give her first name, told AFP she had been turned away by many factories in Gazipur despite having experience in sewing and hemming.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

She was so thrilled by my interest that she would have handed over anything that fit, and I stayed up late hemming the dress by hand.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

Enormous ring hunts depended on hemming in the prey and driving it into an ever-tightening circle, ensuring abundant kills for the king and a memorable spectacle for onlookers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Outside her window, farmland rolls into rocky coastline, hemming a glasslike bay striped with turquoise and populated by showboating dolphins.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025

But after some hemming and hawing, he growled, “Of course. He’s my child.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs