darning
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Her first act as a nonworking person: a solo trip to Scotland, where she took a darning workshop and learned how to repair sweaters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Straight backed and with birdlike poise, Homer French projects a pioneer self-sufficiency, as if she’d be equally capable of darning a sock, milking a goat or driving a horse-drawn cart.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
The seamstresses in Obama’s lineage worked for white families, making and fixing and darning their clothes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
"Sometimes they would invite them in and to others they would say 'no, sorry we're busy darning our socks today'."
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2022
If she has no wool for the darning and the stockings are dark we can blacken our ankles with shoe polish for the respectability that’s in it.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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