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That has meant that tailor Ebrima Camara, 31, has had to sew using a foot-pedal machine rather than his usual electric model, as he struggles to complete orders for school uniforms for the new year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Saar would often hire them as assistants in the studio, she explains: “We’d help her sew, or draw, or glue things together.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

She said she used to purchase fabrics from the luxury department store Liberty London and her mother-in-law bought her a sewing machine and encouraged her to sew.

From BBC ● May 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

Mary could not sew on her nine-patch quilt, and Laura could not knit on the tiny mittens she was making for Baby Carrie.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

“They sewed up my wounds and in the early morning I went back to our building,” Sillie said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

The surviving brothers carried on, wearing, Paul later recalled, American uniforms with French patches sewed on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 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

The anonymous artisans painstakingly sewed the feathers onto a net grid, stabilized with thin wooden rods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

While she sewed mats together and reset the willow poles, Omakayas often experienced the haunting sense of things missing.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

She has never been able to return to work, though she volunteers with NI Chest Heart and Stroke and enjoys sewing.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The "sewing of the loose ends" of the festival is on Saturday.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

"Her sewing machine was there. She was in tears because it's broken now. So, well, it's a tragedy. But in my family everyone is alive and for that I thank God," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

My mother made all our clothes on a Singer sewing machine for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

I stay up while the house is quiet, drying clothes by the fire and sewing a rip in Helena’s skirt where I didn’t sew it very well in the first place.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

It’s like watching stars being sewn into the fabric of the universe.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The small-estate procedure does not simply eliminate the need to deal with real estate, and you already have that sewn up.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

Paraguay later in the day to find out if they’d have Group D completely sewn up before even playing their third match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

I have a few quarters in my pocket and a key to our house tucked into a pocket my mother has sewn into the inside of my jeans after I lost my third key.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi