hemming
Example Sentences
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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
“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
One of the themes that you pull out is that the amendment process, like mending, like hemming, was seen as a part of a natural, long progression of repair, refinement, alteration.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
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
The bone ships surged closer, hemming us in, and I looked around wildly for some way to escape.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
