sewing

Example Sentences

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She found a job in a Brooklyn factory sewing buttons on coats for half a penny per button.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

Some 45 original stockholders invested alongside Hawk, a sewing machine salesman.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Other recent events have focused on “lost arts,” including sewing, knitting and jewelry making, in which Edenwald residents have offered instruction and bins of yarn.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

"We don't believe that sewing is going away," says Palaniswamy Rajan, chairman and chief executive of Softwear Automation, based in the US state of Georgia.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

The rest of the time she busied herself sewing a different sort of costume.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood