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
• The vet snipped them off, sutured the wound and sewed the incision shut.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
• The slain woman loved to sew and made a lot of her own garments by hand.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022
• 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
• That love grew to us wanting to learn to sew and create our own looks.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, 10, who excelled in school and learned how to sew from YouTube videos.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2022
• Try thrifting, buy used things, buy vintage, and learn how to sew.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 22 Apr. 2023
• Finish the edge by serging it or sewing a row of stay stitching.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Mar. 2024
• Her mother, Masha, was a seamstress who was forced to sew clothes for Adolf Hitler's army.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 6 June 2024
• To make: Cut two pieces of ribbon that are twice as long as the width; sew pieces together to form a square.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 6 June 2022
• Her foster parents had a farm in Kinder, La., and taught her how to fish, hunt, can, sew and milk cows.
  — Gale Hollandstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
• The lyocell fill was sewn through and did not move or shift during testing.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Nov. 2023
• Jumpsuit made of two pairs of trousers and a blazer, with the sleeves sewn to prevent movement.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2024
• And after the robot’s done with its part, then the human comes back in and puts the implant into that hole in the skull and covers it up, screwing it down to the skull and sewing the skin back together.
  — Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• The preparation of 35 bows was next; they were shaped and ironed one by one before they were sewn at the specified points along the chevron pattern created by the ribbons.
  — Romany Williams, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024