hemming

present participle of hem

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hemming
Verb
  • Compressing multiyear pre-construction cycles into days or weeks and trimming 20% off project costs could expand supply faster than most policy interventions.
    Jon Stojan, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • After cutting and trimming any splinters, place the stakes behind the trellis.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Either technology can show an assortment of issues like banding and dithering patterns in fills, which vary from printer to printer and can even vary from one quality setting to another with the same printer.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • After a decade of dithering by state leaders, voters forced change last November with their landslide approval of Proposition 36, which reversed parts of Proposition 47 and made some theft and drug crimes felonies once more.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Villa grew into the game from there, edging what became a scrappy second half and deservedly taking the lead when Buendia bent a shot beyond Vicario in the 77th minute.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Business class has been edging toward residential elegance for years, but on a recent long-haul flight ensconced in Cathay Pacific’s new Aria Suite, this trend felt fully realized.
    Chris Dong, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The first proposal almost certainly would have been defeated in the courts, while the other sounds like a fiscal disaster waiting to happen.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Look at how McKelway seductively unspooled the facts, waiting, like a poker player, until the last moment to reveal his ace.
    David Grann, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • What To Know The Dominican Republic is on the northern edge of the Caribbean tectonic plate, bordering the North American one.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • True to his overconfidence-bordering-on-arrogance nature, new intern Wes earlier in the episode did not follow instructions and attended to patients without permission.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Because life—even for us jaded adults—should be for the seizing, not for hesitating in the face of fear.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Meyers acted his dang butt off in this sketch, and the audience paid him back with unsure and hesitating titters — not crickets, but not enthusiasm either.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The islands that became the Outer Banks fringing the North Carolina coast first appeared 15,000 years ago, when sea levels dropped and the nation’s shoreline migrated inward from the continental shelf, Young said.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Off the opposite coast, along western Africa, the cable negotiated the Congo Canyon by heading further out to sea and skirting it entirely; the additional length of cable would be more expensive, but there are few companies better placed than Meta to absorb that extra cost.
    Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats, federal employees and a watchdog group have accused Republicans of skirting the Hatch Act, a 1939 federal law that prevents federal employees from engaging in partisan activities.
    Surina Venkat, The Hill, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Hemming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hemming. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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