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sew

verb as in prepare fabric for clothing, covering

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In one instance, according to the lawsuit, Brock said, “I’m going to sew her up virgin-tight” in front of her husband and parents after childbirth.

“If I can just get somebody to come in and learn how to sew and learn how to repair their clothes, and that’s all that they got from it, they’re still going to go home and repair their clothes and they’re still doing something anticapitalist,” they said.

His motivation was simple: He wanted to learn to sew so he could fix damaged clothing like this T-shirt.

They learned to mend, sew and buy secondhand from their mother.

Back then, I thought the only way to work in fashion was to become a fashion designer, so I started studying fashion design, but quickly realized I didn’t have the patience to sew a button-down shirt.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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