seamstress

Example Sentences

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Welsh described Hogg as a "punk-rock Paisley seamstress".

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Originally from a poor and mountainous district of Bamiyan, Rahesh worked for five years in construction in Iran, where his wife Marzia was a seamstress.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

"We have invented Mildred, the rebel seamstress from the 11th Century," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Tired of wearing the clothes that his seamstress mother made for him, Strachan raised money for shopping by working on a fishing boat, spending weeks at a time at sea.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

One series—which Mia began after she’d been doing some seamstress work—supported them for nearly a year.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng