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Example sentences for "sews"

Lexicographically close words:
sewer; sewerage; sewers; sewing; sewn; sex; sexagesimal; sexaginta; sexe; sexed
  1. One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

  2. First say to the audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, I shall endeavor to give you an imitation of how a bachelor sews on a button.

  3. The man who squats on the table and sews smiles on the boy who loves and plays with his child.

  4. The sharp words flash from the soft mouth of Meyer, who sews and seems in no way one with the sharp words of his mouth.

  5. Look what your Herbert brought her," Meyer sews and smiles.

  6. Them's the things the lady give us where mommer sews for," she explained, in answer to Miss Margery's bewildered look.

  7. Peggy says a lady her mother sews for gave them a lot of clothes.

  8. She took the biggest children to see a lady she sews for that's give them a lot of things.

  9. As that lady sews for monsieur, I thought she was his seamstress.

  10. That's Mamzelle Georgette; she's a shirtmaker, and she sews like a fairy, so they say.

  11. For chips, he goes over to a store an' buys twenty stacks of big wooden button molds, same as they sews the cloth onto for overcoat buttons.

  12. Why, they have what serves as a needle to them: but I can tell you of another animal which sews with a needle a great deal plainer to be seen than that of these little insects.

  13. But, boys, there is another most beautiful little bird, which is called the tailor-bird, because it sews so well.

  14. Boys, do you remember my telling you of a remarkable bird, called the tailor-bird, which sews very neatly?

  15. Well, the woman as sews says it went down and down as long as she could see.

  16. In the case of the leaves in the same piece of work, the floss is laid in the direction in which the leaf grows, and the stitching across, which sews it down, is slightly curved so as to suggest roundness in them.

  17. This the embroidress cuts into short lengths as required, and sews on to the silk--as she would a long bead or bugle.

  18. Feigele has resumed her seat by the bright lamp, and sews and sews till far into the night, and with every seam that she sews, something is added to the credit of her new account.

  19. A machine process which either sews or staples pamphlets of one signature.

  20. The person who sews the signatures together on a sewing bench to form a book.

  21. At least one binder tests the thickness, tensile strength and other qualities of the paper and sews each book in the way that experience has shown to be the best.

  22. This simply means that the sewer when reaching the middle of the signature, passes the needle into the corresponding sawcut of the signature above and sews through to the other end.

  23. Brooklyn, pays a girl that sews neatly, but has never worked at the business, $3 a week.

  24. A suspender maker, in New York, told me he buys the woven goods, then cuts it the right length, and shapes the leather for the ends, which his wife sews on.

  25. The cloth is knit in a straight piece, and another lady cuts it into shape and sews into the articles wanted.

  26. A lady who sews by the day told me she often gets her system out of order by the different food of the several families she is in, and the different times of taking it.

  27. Yet it is kept neat and clean by madame, who sews all day and talks to her cat and to every one who passes into the court-yard.

  28. Everybody in Glendale sews for Sallie's children and it takes her all her time to think up the clothes.

  29. Everybody sews for the twins and, as much as I hate it, I can't help doing it.

  30. So the tailor sews from him, not towards his body, and holds his thread with his toes.

  31. She then sews another crown, and, in the same manner, recovers her other eye at the next aurora.

  32. Defn: One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

  33. She cooks mojadderah for them, and sews the bed-linen on the quilts as is done in the mother country.

  34. Whether the woman sews poorly or not, she does not, in any class she may be placed, receive the wages to which she is entitled.

  35. I am sure that will be the case, for she sews very neatly.

  36. There is a poor woman down in Southwark, who sews beautifully, who would have caught at the job.

  37. Yes, plainly: I often hear her: she sews in one of these rooms.


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