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
  • Hem the sides and sew loops on either end to fit the rods.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 17 Apr. 2019
  • The Witch's hair is made of felt, cut into strips and sewn to the head.
    Michele Filon, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • There are sweaters with plush reindeer heads sewn to the front.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2018
  • Hem the sides and sew loops on either end to fit the rods snugly.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 25 July 2019
  • 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
  • Taurasi’s legacy will forever be sewn into the fabric of the Mercury.
    Ben Pickman, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But an article in the Wall Street Journal suggested physicists are questioning the validity of that claim, and this may have sewn doubt about the theme’s prospects, Cramer said.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025

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