How to Use sew in a Sentence

sew

verb

• The surgeon sewed the wound shut.
• I sewed the button back on the shirt.
• He sewed a patch onto his sleeve.
• She sews her own dresses by hand.
• She designs her own dresses and sews in her free time.
• Joel sews down the artist’s wigs across the perimeter of her head.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 9 Nov. 2023
• The long twine of a decade, hold the tattoo needle to skin and sew habibti.
  — Hala Alyan, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• Girls learned to cook and bake, to sew, to keep house, to not get too roughed up.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 8 Nov. 2022
• The dress took almost 10 weeks to sew, with all the work done by hand.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
• Every which way, the Bronx is sewn and bound and grappled and clamped to the rest of the city.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Start on a long side and sew a 1/2-inch seam along three sides.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2022
• But anyone who doesn’t sew might not get the most out of this bag.
  — Josh Grant, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
• The vet snipped them off, sutured the wound and sewed the incision shut.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
• Her big blue glass eyes seem to stare right at me, and her mouth has been sewn shut.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2024
• The slain woman loved to sew and made a lot of her own garments by hand.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022
• If the length of the ribbons is right, double your thread and sew the pieces into place on the wrong side of the sheets.
  — Alden Wicker, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2020
• Just chop off the straps and back clasps, and then hand sew the outline of the cups into any dress.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 14 Feb. 2023
• There are 86 inches of waxed red thread used to sew the cover of the baseball.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• In the poignant video, the name Grimwade on the back of his jersey is stripped off, and a new name, Musto, is sewn on.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2019
• Lidiya loved to cook, sew and take care of her family and friends.
  — courant.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• The machines were used by staff to make clothes for the children, and the kids were also taught how to sew.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 16 June 2021
• That love grew to us wanting to learn to sew and create our own looks.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• During a tug of war, people joined dolls whose hands Ms. Ayano had sewn to the rope.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• You will be taught the basic pieces and functions of the sewing machine and then sew a tote bag.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
• He was taught by his grandmother to draw and by an aunt to sew.
  — Vogue, 22 Oct. 2021
• Use a serger or a tight zig-zag stitch around the edges to sew the pieces together.
  — Jennifer White, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Create a placemat by folding the towel in half and sewing around the edges.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
• Fold in the top 1 inch of the fabric and sew a channel, leaving a 1-inch opening.
  — Juliana Labianca, Good Housekeeping, 21 Aug. 2023
• Peaky itself follows the crime family into the 1920s, getting its series’ title from the gang’s modus operandi of sewing razor blades into its caps.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 28 Dec. 2024
• The type of armor was worn by knights and military men, created by sewing iron rings to fabric or leather, according to Britannica.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025