How to Use sew up in a Sentence

sew up

verb

• The Spurs can sew up 10th place with one win in their final four games.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
• A lot of change is coming, but there are still many threads left to sew up.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• The 76ers, meanwhile, are trying to sew up the No. 1 seed in the conference.
  — Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 10 May 2021
• The left guard spot seems all but sewn up with Vorhees firmly entrenched.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
• By the time the 2016 field winnowed down, Trump had the nomination sewn up.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• Cooper scored 24 points to help the Wildcats sew up a berth in the state tournament.
  — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2022
• The bullet hole in his shirt is sewn up by a seamstress in a factory.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
• There was a nurse who was sewing up a woman’s head after she got hit with a piece of cement from the walls.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Anton Blidh, trying to sew up a fourth-line job in Colorado, survived the first two rounds of camp cuts . . .
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• The right-hander faced the minimum to sew up Milwaukee's eighth shutout and send Colorado to 6-31 on the road.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2021
• While in the present, Ellie rejects Joel’s request, grabs a needle and thread, and attempts to sew up his wound.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2023
• Sure, the league title already feels sewn up at the start of the season—how could anyone not pick Manchester City to win?.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• Wilmer-Hutchins can all but sew up a spot with a win Thursday over Carrollton Ranchview, making it 3-0 in league play.
  — Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2022
• The Democrats’ surprisingly strong showing in those elections seemed to sew up the question of whether Biden would run again.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
• But after a cease-fire was reached on May 21, the negotiations resumed, and Lapid raced to sew up a deal.
  — Time, 3 June 2021
• Cary’s great-grandfather was a cowboy, who moved through cattle like smoke, who could sew up a prolapsed cow in the dark with shoelaces and hog rings.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• The process is simple: cut out a rectangle (or two rectangles), and sew up the sides to make a tube, either by hand or with a machine.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2021
• Red stitches were used to fix any fabric, drawing parallels to the red stitches used by paramedics to sew up the wounds on faces, hands, and legs the night of the explosion.
  — Jessica Purkiss, Marie Claire, 17 Dec. 2020
• Tight ends Luke Musgrave and Tucker Kraft appear to have the position sewn up for the next several years.
  — Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
• Paramedics took him to a hospital in Daytona Beach, Fla., where a plastic surgeon sewed up his wounds with 19 stitches.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• After 48 minutes, the sixth seed had the early lead sewn up, taking her first set point when Vekić failed to retrieve a forehand.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024
• That is possible for any of them if the field narrows to a two-person race before Mr. Trump has the nomination sewn up.
  — Mitt Romney, WSJ, 24 July 2023
• Yes, people used to actually sew up holes in their socks instead of throwing them away.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2019
• By next spring, the Trump campaign could be dug in for a long delegate fight or, if the early states go its way, have already sewn up the nomination.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Rosalind S. Helderman and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The Globes try to sew up at least one acting category for Oscar, so Quan should be the beneficiary this year.
  — Vulture, 10 Jan. 2023
• The goal of a transparent export landscape is not to ensure that U.S. firms sew up every infrastructure project that comes along.
  — Fred P. Hochberg, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
• Oregon players hug, high-five, dance, pose for pictures with fans and mug for television cameras after the Ducks sew up a berth in the BCS national championship game.
  — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2021
• Key contests The ceremony will have to create some surprises, as by this point certain categories are all but sewn up.
  — Tom Page, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
• The Aggies’ rousing upset in 2012 sewed up Johnny Manziel’s Heisman argument.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Thanks in part to years of work by the former president’s campaign and allies, the party’s primary rules and calendar are designed to help a front-runner sew up the nomination quickly.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024