as in to stitch
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches
luckily, I was able to sew the tear so skillfully that my pants looked as good as new
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Recent Examples of sew
Initially, many of these factories functioned as little more than exploitative sweatshops in which desperate young women sewed clothes for as little as five cents an hour (roughly $1 in 2025 dollars).
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Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
So, a long while, the bulk of it though, like the sewing things up and finishing happened from probably spring of 2023 to 2024.
—Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
There are costumes and sewing books to give away, as well as Lyric memorabilia, office furniture and books on Gilbert & Sullivan and the Victorian period.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
The story a full collection tells and the unique fabrics and textures sewn together are like the unique individuals who make up an organization.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2025
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Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
So, a long while, the bulk of it though, like the sewing things up and finishing happened from probably spring of 2023 to 2024.
—Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
There are costumes and sewing books to give away, as well as Lyric memorabilia, office furniture and books on Gilbert & Sullivan and the Victorian period.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
The story a full collection tells and the unique fabrics and textures sewn together are like the unique individuals who make up an organization.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sew
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Or like jeans that have a special waistband or stitching to them.—
Brianne Tracy,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Not from Rome, but from the community that wrapped around me like a warm quilt stitched from generations of resilience.—
Jack Hill,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Apr. 2025
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For example, in the hand tendon-transfer surgery for high median-ulnar palsy, one muscle is sutured to all four finger flexor tendons.—
Evan Ackerman,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Mar. 2018
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Doctors still will need to practice sawing into bone and suturing muscles.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Sew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sew. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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