sew
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“I’m glad I’m not the one who had to sew them on originally!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
PhD fashion students at DMU put on a workshop teaching pupils how to sew and mend damaged clothes.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Others simply mocked the assertion that a new ballroom would sew up the president’s apparent security concerns.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
“I love to sew, I like to make jewelry. I like to make bikinis, and I like to be involved in the community,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Hands that would inherit a successful business, one that sold clothing, and yet did not even know how to sew.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Ireland sewed up the play-off place in the group thanks to Troy Parrott's 96th-minute hat-trick goal handing them a 3-2 win over third-placed Hungary.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
Amabile says she has an older sister who for years sewed Halloween costumes for her family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The 132-pound turtle was taken into Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific, where veterinarians removed the fishing line and sewed the wounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
He sells overalls with rain boots sewed in to them on TikTok.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
They could no longer afford lantern oil, so she burned branches, and when her eyes watered from the smoke, she sewed her tears into the lotus ponds.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
To help meet growing demand, it is appealing for local sewing groups to volunteer their time and skills so more unwanted clothing can be given a second life rather than ending up in landfill.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
“We literally reached senators and little old ladies’ sewing circles and everyone else,” Busby recalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
It features the base of an old sewing machine pasted over with a cigar box wrapper and the oft-reoccurring theme of a moon, sun and stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
For the tourists' benefit, Vlkolinec puts on traditional craft demonstrations, from sewing folk costumes and gingerbread decorating to mowing and haymaking.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The sewing took effort—the cloth was tough, stiff with age; and several times he jabbed the needle up into the space under his fingernail—but he found it unexpectedly satisfying.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
BH: The two beaded dresses took over a month because every bead was hand beaded and sewn on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
On one trip, then 6-year-old Bridget won a Laura look-alike contest in a handmade pinafore and bonnet sewn by her grandmother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Now, your costume is a leotard with a skirt sewn onto it, so that if you raise your arms, it doesn't come adrift.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
All of this ambiguity is intentional, sewn into the script with as much care as Sam stitches her dresses.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
He has muscles that could crush my head with a flex, and he wears a black dashiki with the cosmos sewn directly into the stitching.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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