sewed-up
Example Sentences
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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
He panted as Mroueh sewed up an incision by his shoulder.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024
Humphrey arrived at the 1968 convention with the nomination functionally sewed up, having won more delegates than he needed to secure the presidential nod.
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2024
He was sewed up “in, like, the laundry room” and played the rest of the game.
From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2023
She’d come to Buxton with lots of pieces of gold sewed up in her dress and bought fifty acres of land in the south of the Settlement.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
