sew
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"Using foot-pedalling to sew uniforms is very hard because it is slow", he told AFP.
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
We have a big couch, and I sew while Jake watches movies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
PhD fashion students at DMU put on a workshop teaching pupils how to sew and mend damaged clothes.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Apparently he’d paid a tailor in Isfahan to sew them into the lining of the super expensive suitcases so the guards at the airport wouldn’t think to inspect them.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Jordan sewed sage green curtains to conceal additional storage spaces and further brighten the space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
Amabile says she has an older sister who for years sewed Halloween costumes for her family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
He sells overalls with rain boots sewed in to them on TikTok.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
Penelope sewed and stole glances at the stage, and a part of her wished it would never end, but at last the ballet was over.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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My mother made all our clothes on a Singer sewing machine for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
She said hobbies such as cooking, sewing and gardening were her generation's "rejection of this hyper-digital world that feels really all-consuming".
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Founded in 1862 by Adam Opel, the company produced sewing machines and later bicycles, before venturing into car manufacturing in 1899 at its Ruesselsheim site.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Almost simultaneously the sewing machine reduced the time needed to make a shirt from 16 hours to two, greatly reducing clothing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Aunt Kitty picked up her sewing project and began folding it into a neat pile.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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“If you can avoid having your eyelid sewn shut, avoid it,” Mr. Rushdie says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
The full length was hand sewn by Grant to "make it nice and flat as Venezuela walked and I used an embroidery machine to do the edging round the side".
From BBC ● May 20, 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
I wore a blue gingham skirt I’d sewn myself and an ironed T-shirt, white as a bowl of whole milk.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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