darning

Example Sentences

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Her first act as a nonworking person: a solo trip to Scotland, where she took a darning workshop and learned how to repair sweaters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Straight backed and with birdlike poise, Homer French projects a pioneer self-sufficiency, as if she’d be equally capable of darning a sock, milking a goat or driving a horse-drawn cart.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

It was first thought to be a darning tool and found with dozens of shoes.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2023

The feet were shoeless, with socks in need of darning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022

Six beads from a child’s necklace, five building blocks, a darning egg, a bone, a small harmonica, and a partly consumed lollipop.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater