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But standing still is no guarantee of safety either: One woman’s hem got caught in the teeth of an escalator.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

There were forms and traditions and processes, there were strictures, rules, the law, expectations, all of which would hem in the head of the executive branch, at least eventually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

She shows off large animal heads, including a rat and a bull, and an embroidered dress with a ruffled hem made for the production of the Handel opera "Alcina".

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

The asymmetry of the cut, however, sounded a note of continuation: Ivanka wore a white Oscar de la Renta jacket with an asymmetric handkerchief hem for inauguration day in 2017.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025

She bent, and with the glamry blade she sliced the stitches from the coat’s hem, and the cloth unfurled.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

As it enters Assam's vast floodplains, home to some 28 million people and hemmed in by hills, it slows and deposits sediment, fuelling erosion and floods.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The property is reachable by narrow roads hemmed in by overgrown trees, but its remoteness is an illusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

This new version isn’t hemmed in by the traditional structures of a book musical, allowing it to play fast and loose with the theatrical context without having to throw out the story or the score.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

It was whether federal courts, hemmed in by the modern law of habeas corpus, are permitted to say anything meaningful about that possibility at all.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026

Her family couldn't go anywhere without being stopped, having to talk to so and so, or get hemmed up into having iced tea and pound cake on somebody's porch.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Begum, who did not give her first name, told AFP she had been turned away by many factories in Gazipur despite having experience in sewing and hemming.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

"The hemming wasn't right, the length wasn't right. You either go on parade right or you don't go at all."

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

“They’re rolling their eyes at the price, hemming and hawing about it, but if people drink cold brew, they’re getting their cold brew,” said Pedeaux.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

And they're hemming and hawing and saying, what if they use it as .

From Salon ● May 9, 2024

Some of the clothes have missing buttons or small rips and tears, and others need hemming or taking in.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline