sew
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But regardless, he said, Democrats would have to find a way to "sew these two very large groups back together" if they wanted to reverse recent election losses.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
“I’m glad I’m not the one who had to sew them on originally!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
We have a big couch, and I sew while Jake watches movies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Others simply mocked the assertion that a new ballroom would sew up the president’s apparent security concerns.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
“Now that’s a brilliant observation. We’ve got some mosquito netting, and I could sew some of that around the top, find some way to fasten it so you could open and close it.”
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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“My father built a cabin and gardened; we raised chickens and sheep. My mother was a schoolteacher who sewed all my clothes and dolls.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Lee’s mom sewed children’s clothes at a textile plant before dying of complications from a hysterectomy at 35 when Lee was 16.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Ireland sewed up the play-off place in the group thanks to Troy Parrott's 96th-minute hat-trick goal handing them a 3-2 win over third-placed Hungary.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
While the girls sewed, a nun read aloud so that no-one talked.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
He sewed skillfully, and the calluses on the tips of his fingers were so hard that he pushed the needle through the cloth without a thimble.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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A pile of mending projects in my sewing room filled a shelf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
It features the base of an old sewing machine pasted over with a cigar box wrapper and the oft-reoccurring theme of a moon, sun and stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Some 45 original stockholders invested alongside Hawk, a sewing machine salesman.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Inside were fabrics, sewing shears, a pincushion of needles, and several spools of thread.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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BH: The two beaded dresses took over a month because every bead was hand beaded and sewn on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
And Wawrinka carried a memento of those shorts in his final French Open outing, with a strip of the fabric sewn on to his shirt.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
All of this ambiguity is intentional, sewn into the script with as much care as Sam stitches her dresses.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Some old threads are sewn up and others remain painfully open.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
I even have a new necklace of rowan berries, sewn by Tatterfell and worn because there was no way she could know I didn’t need it.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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