darning

Example Sentences

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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 feet were shoeless, with socks in need of darning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022

"The shelling of peas, the darning of socks, the sort of thing my mum used to do sitting and watching the television... knitting," he explained.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2020

It was the size of a darning needle.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck