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Example sentences for "sewed"

Lexicographically close words:
sevral; sew; sewage; sewd; sewe; sewer; sewerage; sewers; sewing; sewn
  1. Day and Rittenhouse simply sewed up the case in criminations and recriminations.

  2. It consisted of two pieces of material gathered full at the top with a strong cord or puckering string run through, and sewed together around the edges.

  3. This is sewed in the sleeve of the coat or shirt and reaches from the cuff to the elbow joint.

  4. We couldn't afford servants, so mother sewed and Uncle Rod and I did the housework.

  5. She mended and sewed and washed her brushes, and washed her hair, and gave all of her little belongings a special rub and scrub, and showed herself altogether exquisite and housewifely.

  6. The grandmother had a small pension, and sewed by the day for several old customers.

  7. They knew that he had sewed some bills in his waistcoat, and that his steamer ticket and other money were in his purse.

  8. He thought out a plan, which he helped me to carry into effect, by cutting bits of lead in small strips, and these I sewed into the hem.

  9. Old cow lived no more on the ranch and frank no more from branch, Kinba a pair of shoes, he sewed from the old cows hide he had tanned.

  10. Occupation "I've always sewed for a living.

  11. The same woman on the place sewed for de niggers, made some things for Miss Frances.

  12. She sewed for the mistress and her own family too.

  13. A small tube made from the cloth and sewed into one end will make a better place for inflating and to tie up tightly.

  14. They are sewed to the case at one end and fastened at the other with clasps such as used on overall straps.

  15. Wire this loop to the ring made in the rod and make the head about this loop by using canvas or gunny cloth sewed up forming a bag into which is stuffed either excelsior, paper or hay.

  16. Four-inch hems are sewed in each side of the canvas, and when the camp is pitched, a 2-in.

  17. These two pieces are sewed together on the outer and inner edges, leaving a space, about 12 in.

  18. The cloth segments are sewed together, using a fine needle and No.

  19. Having prepared the two sides, they may be placed together and sewed around the edges.

  20. Shorten and hollow out the brush of the broom and then pad the hollow part with cotton batting, covering it with a piece of cloth sewed in place.

  21. Put on the design before the two parts are sewed together.

  22. Then the best remedy is to cover the whole boat with unbleached muslin, sewed at the ends and tacked along the gunwales.

  23. Allow a little margin at the top and bottom, however, to permit trimming the edges slightly after the parts have been sewed together.

  24. A false face, or one painted on white cloth, can be sewed on the stuffed bag.

  25. They pay twenty-five cents for making a cover of unbleached domestic, when two seams are sewed and it is hemmed at the ends.

  26. The bindings are sewed on by machines, and operatives get about $5 per week.

  27. The carpet bags are sewed up and the buttons put in by machines.

  28. The quilting for linings is done by machines, but the linings are sewed in by hand.

  29. A girl engaged in making mattresses told us they are mostly sewed up by machines, and operators earn from $3 to $6, working ten hours a day.

  30. The straps are sewed on by farmers' daughters, who take them home.

  31. They are sewed by a machine, because it can be done faster.

  32. Work done by steam power is not so neat; the selvages are not well made, and the goods must be cut and sewed in seams.

  33. We think, the sewing of ladies done by machine does not pay quite so well as hand sewing; but if we sewed for a living, we would give the machine the preference, because of its rapid execution.

  34. Then we cut the sweater coat up to the size and shape of our prison jacket and sewed it in.

  35. Now, in preparing for escape we cut this stripe out and sewed up the trousers so that they were all black.

  36. The belt is held in place by sliding it through loops sewed on the middy, one at the back and one on each side.

  37. A duffel-bag is usually made cylindrical in form with a disk of the cloth sewed in tight at one end, and the other end closed with draw-strings.

  38. After some time the linen was cut into pieces and sewed with needles.

  39. When Elizabeth had sewed the last neat stitches, she dressed the doll and laid it on the bed by the little girl.

  40. One ought to have one’s mouth sewed up these times,” observed the more ancient of the beldames, casting a half-suspicious glance at me as I folded my newspaper and put it into my pocket.

  41. His scalp was returned to its proper place and sewed together, his hair combed, and his blood-stained face cleansed of its gory marks.

  42. The door-flap is usually made of a strip of cloth six to nine inches wide, sewed to the selvage of the breadth that laps inside; the top of it is sewed across the inside of the other breadth, and reaches to the corner seam.

  43. One side of the lining should be sewed to the blanket, and the other side and the ends buttoned; or you may leave off the end buttons.

  44. You can thus dry it, when wet, better than if it were sewed all around.

  45. Beckets must be put in the bottom of each seam and the door, the same as in the A-tent, and strong tapes sewed to the door.

  46. Sew the strap on the upper corners of the back piece, having first sewed a facing inside, to prevent its tearing out the back.

  47. Some said the devil had taken him for his wickedness; others, that he had amassed an immense plunder, and was fearful of its being wrested from him, and he had therefore escaped with it, as it was known to be sewed up in his saddle.

  48. The Khan had two horses, but the saddle of the one missing is that in which all the gold was sewed up.

  49. The star of romance presently turned itself into the bright kitchen lamp that stood between them as Maria sewed her long winter seam and looked up contentedly to see Mr. Haydon sitting opposite with his weekly newspaper.

  50. After she had been with me for a few days, she sewed for an hour on the machine.

  51. If she sewed for half an hour on the sewing machine, she would be in bed for two weeks.

  52. I have carried it about ever since, though I sewed up the purse not to spend it, and only once cut it open.

  53. PATCH'WORK, work formed of patches or pieces sewed together: work patched up or clumsily executed.

  54. So when evening came they sewed the second princess in the sack and carried her out to the rock.

  55. As the King sewed the poor girl into a great leather sack, his tears fell so fast that he could scarcely see what he was doing.

  56. The whole circumference of the purdah is then sewed very neatly, and bound with tape, corresponding with the color of the cloth, and the ends of the tapes are also bound by means of leather, covered with the same materials.

  57. Each end of the top lath has similar pieces of leather sewed on, for the cords by which the cheek is to be suspended.

  58. She had sewed it with her own hand, and it had been last put on by herself; for Grizzel thought it too fine for her to wear.

  59. Instead I attached the suspension cords of my basket directly to the balloon envelope by means of small wooden rods introduced into long horizontal hems sewed on both sides to its stuff for a great part of the balloon's length.

  60. Sewed like a closed patch pocket to the inside bottom of the great balloon, this compensating air balloon would remain flat and empty so long as the great balloon remained distended with its gas.

  61. Before this time the Cymri in Britain probably wore plaited grass garments; they also sewed together the skins of animals with bone needles.

  62. We are told that the primal man and woman sewed in Paradise.

  63. When Eve sewed fig-leaves together, she made of these small pieces a garment of patchwork.

  64. Nothing in all this to keep Christmas on, thought Letty, and she knitted and crocheted and sewed with extra ardor that the twins' stockings might be filled with bright things of her own making.

  65. He didn't never have but one button to keep sewed on 'n' no stockings to darn a tall.

  66. It was a fine one, with leather as white as buckskin but very hard, and thick seams sewed in the cover with heavy thread, winding in and out in horseshoe curves.

  67. On one she sewed a red J; on the second a blue M; on the third a pink H.


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