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

Straight backed and with birdlike poise, Homer French projects a pioneer self-sufficiency, as if she’d be equally capable of darning a sock, milking a goat or driving a horse-drawn cart.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

The feet were shoeless, with socks in need of darning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 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

And I was darning so many holey socks at the boardinghouse, my nose had grown numb from the particularly brutal odor of sweaty, dusty feet.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan