embroider
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You embroider your philosophy on pillows and cushions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
She had always been creative, experimenting with watercolors and learning to sew and embroider at a young age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Season 2 feels like much more of an ensemble affair as showrunner Tony Gilroy expands the show’s focus beyond one character’s moral development to more thoroughly embroider others that are just as worthwhile.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025
According to legend, Tyre is the place where purple pigment was first created - the dye crushed out of snail shells to embroider royal robes.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
Now I am ten, learning to embroider circular stitches, to calculate fractions into percentages, to nurse my papaya tree to bear many fruits.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
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O’Connor’s monologue focused on two things those unfamiliar with his acting should know about him: that he has a reputation as a “soft boy,” someone who embroiders, scrapbooks and gardens like an “average 65-year-old woman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025
At the same workshop, Getu Derza, 48, carefully embroiders colourful silk threads into intricate patterns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
The large fabric “mapestries” that she embroiders with topographical details add to her affiliation with traditional craftspeople.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Los Angeles artist Diane Meyer embroiders family photos like distorted pixelations to ask questions about memory.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Gisa embroiders at the table, making something beautiful and exquisite and entirely beyond my comprehension.
From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard
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Probably designed and made soon after 1066 at Canterbury, it is not a true tapestry, but an embroidered narrative, and the oldest and most complete one we have.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
For just one week it gave away free baseball hats with the word "thinking" embroidered on the front.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The insider further revealed that the lovers spent 20 minutes exchanging their handwritten vows, and that they handed out custom handkerchiefs, embroidered with a “TT” and lyrics from Swift’s 2014 song “Blank Space.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
The photos published by TMZ also show Thornton, who is wearing a black jacket embroidered with the “Wheel of Fortune” logo on his sleeve, appearing to type into the chat room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Mine from a crumpled paper bag and Jonesy’s from a fancy little Thermos brand box with a whale embroidered patch on the front.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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Artisans at the London fashion house Safiyaa spent 150 hours embroidering Anderson’s bespoke silk reception outfit.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Kit men spent the 24 hours before Argentina faced England embroidering those shirts with numbers and the national crest.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
The mother-of-two said she works all day sewing clothes and embroidering but she can't afford baby formula for her youngest.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
My life today consists of watching television, reading, embroidering and drawing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
One afternoon when Amaranta was embroidering on the porch with the begonias Úrsula bumped into her.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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