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 seamstresses in Obama’s lineage worked for white families, making and fixing and darning their clothes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
And I was darning so many holey socks at the boardinghouse, my nose had grown numb from the particularly brutal odor of sweaty, dusty feet.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
