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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
Authorities often attempt to hem in or demolish slums rather than extend electricity, paved roads or schools to them.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 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
Invariably, Mitchell said, “the guy would hem and haw,” then opt for treatment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2024
Clare fiddled with the hem of his cloak.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Officials say large canopies create a similar visibility problem in Laguna Beach, where beaches are much more narrow and often hemmed in by coves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 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
Minetree has "cracking comic timing", the Independent said, but appeared to be "hemmed in by the Reese Witherspoon impression she's presumably been told to do".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
I want to help him, want to go to him, but I am hemmed in.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
She was so thrilled by my interest that she would have handed over anything that fit, and I stayed up late hemming the dress by hand.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Enormous ring hunts depended on hemming in the prey and driving it into an ever-tightening circle, ensuring abundant kills for the king and a memorable spectacle for onlookers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Outside her window, farmland rolls into rocky coastline, hemming a glasslike bay striped with turquoise and populated by showboating dolphins.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
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
Vocabulary lists containing hem
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 1–5
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"A Story Without an End" by Mark Twain
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Sewing Away
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