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An entertaining left-handed batter and bowler of seam and spin, Sobers played 93 Tests between 1954 and 1974, scoring 8,032 runs and taking 235 wickets.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

On Saturday, 22-year-old seam bowler Kranti Gaud became the first woman on the bowling board after taking five for 37 in England's first innings.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

I like this seam bowling attack as a whole.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

All 40 wickets in the match fell to seam bowlers - this was the first completed Test to be played in England since 1988 where neither side opted for a single delivery of spin bowling.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Doc took the shirt and located a small button on an inside seam.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Reacting to the announcement, a prison officer told the BBC that they were "creaking at the seams" and that "delaying the releases until October could mean we simply run out of space".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

McElwee stitches together the past and present to find new meaning in their seams, a jagged line that runs through time and points toward the future.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

He considered different shapes for the container -- like a square or even a star -- but thought it best to avoid having seams and joints, so a stainless steel cylinder won the day.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

The unmoving, shallow water can’t help but grow algae in the beating sun, and since the concrete expands and contracts with shifting temperatures, any seals along the seams have struggled to remain watertight.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026

They had to slit the trousers right down the side seams to get them on the poor chap and even then couldn’t fasten them, he was so much wider than me.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Charlotte is always tightly seamed and belted, while Lisa, a filmmaker, wears bright colors and straddles the line between adventurous pop art flair and polished affluence.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

Many scenes play out in candlelight and leaping shadows, with Marius Panduru’s camera crawling close to seamed faces and veined forearms.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

There is a kind of rigor here in the wholly invented language that the actors persuasively speak while also somehow sporting chic, seamed trousers, manicured eyebrows and trimmed beards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

Bumrah walked back with a wry smile, and then delivered one that seamed back in and knocked back the stumps.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023

Of the three grimy windows, one has a jagged hole in the upper- right corner and one is seamed with spidery cracks.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

But he only lasted seven balls, edging a seaming delivery into the safe hands of Marnus Labuschagne at third slip.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

After the entire first day was washed out by rain, India chose to bat on a lively, seaming pitch and were dismissed for the third-lowest total in their Test history.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024

A seminal and comprehensive history; Times critic Bharati Mukherjee called Takaki’s method “extraordinary, seaming together meticulous scholarship, impassioned analysis, popular culture and personal memoir.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2021

The contoured silhouettes with intricate seaming, embroidery and couture detailing looked deceptively more expensive than their retail price.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2020

But this enormous creature was not an exception to the law which renders giants harmless by seaming them with weakness, but for which the giants would possess the earth.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James