sew
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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
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
PhD fashion students at DMU put on a workshop teaching pupils how to sew and mend damaged clothes.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
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
She looks over my shoulder, watches me sew for a bit.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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
While the girls sewed, a nun read aloud so that no-one talked.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
The anonymous artisans painstakingly sewed the feathers onto a net grid, stabilized with thin wooden rods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
I sewed new skirts so that the fifteen or so majorettes could wear the same costumes as they accompanied the band.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Begum, who did not give her first name, told AFP she had been turned away by many factories in Gazipur despite having experience in sewing and hemming.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
It features the base of an old sewing machine pasted over with a cigar box wrapper and the oft-reoccurring theme of a moon, sun and stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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
I am disappointed and go back to my sewing without saying another word on the subject.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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
These are of parchment, prepared from specially treated animal skins that had to be sewn together to accommodate the lofty towers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
They had brought along a couple of short-handled trench shovels, a duffel bag packed with American clothes, and a suitcase with money sewn in its lining.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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