How to Use sewing machine in a Sentence
sewing machine
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Cuevas prefers a life behind a sewing machine to one in front of the camera.
—thehustle.co, 3 Feb. 2024
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Stitch two sides closed with a sewing machine; turn pouch right-side out.
—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2023
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Try out the trend yourself with this Singer sewing machine.
—Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
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Her sewing machine table stands next to a bunk bed, and clothes pile up on a chair next to it.
—Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
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Jensen’s sewing machine hummed in another part of the house.
—Margret Grebowicz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
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All our students need is the Internet, a sewing machine, and a smile!
—Svetlana Khachiyan, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
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My line went taut, and then the rig danced down the gunnel like a sewing machine needle toward the motor.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 10 June 2023
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Use a sewing machine set to a zigzag stitch to attach the strips, sewing the 4-inch sides together with a 1/4-inch seam allowance.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
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Williams sold a horse to fund Cohn’s first sewing machine, and the tailor made the singer’s stage suits at a price that fit his small costume budget.
—Amy Bizzarri, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
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Elias Howe, the inventor of the first sewing machine, claimed that the main innovation, placing the thread hole near the tip of the needle, came to him in a dream.
—Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
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Here, a sheepskin sweatband is snipped to size and installed with a vintage Singer sewing machine.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
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On one of the worktables near a sewing machine is a sketch of a pink vest and pants set that were recently constructed for a photo shoot.
—Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
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Using a ¼-inch seam allowance on your sewing machine, sew the pieces together at each corner as shown with the red lines in the diagram.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
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His father, Joseph, worked as a welder for the Singer sewing machine company, and his mother, Louise, sewed for a furrier.
—Nate Chinen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
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Racks of clothes, casting boards, a sewing machine, artwork, and even the designer’s dog Powie were in residence.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2023
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Danner leaves a heavy sewing machine set up on a long dining room table at her Aunt Diana’s house in Utqiagvik.
—Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
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Sew Pillow Covers Break out your sewing machine and sew your own throw pillow covers.
—Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2023
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My mother stitched them with colorful designs, working at a sewing machine that could be heard echoing throughout the house in the evenings.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
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The explosion is actually rendered on the surface of a closet door in a mundane apartment where the girls sit next to a pink bucket and a sewing machine.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
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But that was really just my introduction to a sewing machine.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2024
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The sewing machine, introduced in the 1840s, brought about its own moral panic, mostly regarding women.
—Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
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Old tintypes sit on top of a 19th-century Singer sewing machine handed down from Shirley’s grandmother.
—Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
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Peretz married Anne Devereux Labouisse, an heir to the Singer sewing machine company fortune.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
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Verna was sitting at her own sewing machine now, which was perched on the dining table, taking in this memory when her cellphone rang.
—Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
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More impressive: Meredith, a freelance clothing designer with clients like Rapha, made his tent, sleeping bag and clothes on his home sewing machine.
—Molly Collett, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
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There is a tiny grand piano, complete with working keys; a Singer sewing machine with small reels of thread; and a Hoover vacuum cleaner, its cord carefully wrapped around its handle.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
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The walls of their kitchen display more photographs and cultural ephemera, and another room, from which Esperance, a seamstress, works, is filled with vivid fabrics, a sewing machine and scraps from past projects.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
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So, for most of the movie, Nana (Adriana Barraza) is this seemingly harmless grandmother who watches her stories and uses her sewing machine.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2023
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Kohinoor frowns in concentration while her sewing machine rattles off a hem.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
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Step 3: Detail and Sew Back Add detailing to the finished pillow front by sewing decorative seams down the middle of the strips, or adjust your sewing machine settings to add decorative patterns.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
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