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Example sentences for "seamstresses"

Lexicographically close words:
seamen; seaming; seamless; seams; seamstress; seamy; sean; seance; seances; seaplane
  1. Then it was said that the seamstresses should be admitted into the tailor's union, but others opposed it, and there was a great row in which the old tailors got the worst of it.

  2. If you happen to be in our part of the world on Sunday week, I will give you an invitation to our fraternity ball, all the seamstresses are to be asked to it.

  3. People said he cheated all the seamstresses who would not let him have his way with them.

  4. It was Saturday, and there was a crowd of journeymen and seamstresses in the warehouse, who had come to deliver their work.

  5. One of the seamstresses had appeared in the doorway.

  6. The seamstresses were sitting quietly at work in the large room.

  7. Chambermaids and seamstresses often sleep in their mistresses' apartments, but with no bedding at all.

  8. Seamstresses are included with dressmakers; cabinetmakers and woodworkers (not specified) with carpenters and joiners.

  9. Could n't we give up a few of the vanities, and pay the seamstresses better?

  10. Some seamstresses sew fifteen hours a day, and earn but thirty cents, equal to two cents an hour, without board.

  11. The correspondent we have quoted says that another of the things which prevents seamstresses from "going into service," is "the over-anxiety of mistresses that servants should know their position.

  12. A correspondent ( The Argus, December 16) informs us that observation and the remarks he has heard made by factory girls have led him to think that there are three serious objections which the seamstresses have to domestic service.

  13. We have no doubt that all this, or at least the greater part, would be admitted by the seamstresses themselves: but nevertheless the fact remains that to domestic service they will not go.

  14. Clothing generally for the American troops in France was repaired at special shops and at the homes of seamstresses in the small towns and communes.

  15. When the great demand for shirts came in the spring of 1917, the most expert of these seamstresses were hired outright by the month to act as instructors in the homes of new sewing women who had volunteered for the work.

  16. The home seamstresses were eager to buy, for they were able to produce more piecework with a sewing machine and therefore earn more money.

  17. As wealth was acquired and taste could be cultivated, professional seamstresses and tailors were in increasing demand, moved into the cities and towns, and even visited the smaller villages for as long as their services were needed.

  18. Since many seamstresses were needed, the garments were farmed out to the girls in their homes.

  19. Daily he sat in one of the rooms demonstrating his machine, and finally he challenged five of the swiftest seamstresses there to a race.

  20. The tanners, cobblers, and seamstresses of Athens applauded a farce in which Socrates was represented lifted in the air in a hamper, announcing that there was no God, and boasting of having stolen a cloak while he was teaching philosophy.

  21. The seamstresses are the children of mighty Britain, and it seems that their mother cannot give them sustenance.

  22. It is principally in the textile trade that we hear of both strikes and unions, but also among seamstresses and tailoresses, shoemakers and capmakers.

  23. The private prostitutes, whether registered or unregistered, are mainly seamstresses or others dependent upon daily labor.

  24. This idea drives them to needlework to maintain their respectability, and thus, while service is abandoned, the ranks of seamstresses are augmented.

  25. The long rear bench was utilized as a sewing table for the seamstresses and also for additional seating capacity.

  26. It had been cleared of seamstresses and workmen the day before, and put in comparatively spick and span order.

  27. It was the time when the working women came from the center of the city--pale typists, cashiers with the excitement of the cheap novel still in their eyes, seamstresses from the large businesses.

  28. Finding that the hatters have a strong union, the shoemakers, the tailors, and the seamstresses try to make similar unions, and to restrict the numbers employed.

  29. Seamstresses in England received wretchedly poor wages before the introduction of the American sewing machine, and they thought they would be starved altogether when the same work could be done twenty times as fast by machine as by hand.

  30. As I know what his answer to your questions will be, we’ll order the seamstresses to begin work tomorrow morning.

  31. I’ll dine at Wyanoke, and by tomorrow we’ll have half a dozen seamstresses at work making things enough to last us to Baltimore.

  32. I am informed by the seamstresses of this city, that they get but thirty cents for making a satin vest, and from twelve to thirty for making pants, and coats in the same proportion.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seamstresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.