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Saar’s mother, Beatrice Lillian Parson, taught her how to sew when she was around 10 years old.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Others simply mocked the assertion that a new ballroom would sew up the president’s apparent security concerns.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

While watching her sew by hand, Howe realized that a machine could speed up the process, perhaps solving the family’s financial difficulties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Listening to music rushes her work because she is tempted to sculpt or sew or cook to the beat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

I sew a fine seam, and Beatrice was learning.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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

The 132-pound turtle was taken into Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific, where veterinarians removed the fishing line and sewed the wounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

I also have a white plastic sunglasses case with colored shells and sequins and a green plastic starfish sewed onto it.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

He began experimenting with a sewing machine and, in 1846, introduced a foot-powered model that could sew 250 stitches a minute, outracing the fastest human hands by a factor of five.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

For the tourists' benefit, Vlkolinec puts on traditional craft demonstrations, from sewing folk costumes and gingerbread decorating to mowing and haymaking.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Only after her plight was the centerpiece of a Las Vegas Sun article about public assistance did the welfare department set her up with a sewing class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Zaghari-Ratcliffe added there was only one, old industrial sewing machine in the prison and she was assigned to be in charge of its use.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

“I’ve never sewn a jacket in my life,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

The dresses have been sewn, the jewellery has been polished and New York's hairdressers and make-up artists have been fully booked ahead of the Met Gala 2026.

From BBC ● May 3, 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

Noor had sewn it for her just the week before, during a fit of boredom.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai