hemming

present participle of hem

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hemming
Verb
  • Bibb took to her Instagram story before the annual event, sharing a behind-the-scenes video of Chris McMillan trimming her ends.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Once the tree is installed, state Department of General Services crews will go to work trimming the tree over the next several days.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Lineman Eddy Pierre-Louis made a heart with his hands and held it high as his teammates waved and joked on their way into the stadium’s south tunnel, where super agent Jimmy Sexton stood waiting, too.
    David Ubben, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Judge Christopher Tuite issued an arrest warrant Friday after waiting 30 minutes for Goudreau to show up for the third day of the bond hearing.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • There is no shortage of beautiful beaches to consider when planning a Florida vacation, but Anna Maria has been edging ahead of competition in the Sunshine State.
    Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Emma Goetz of Tyler Grace Community claimed her second straight 5A girls gold, with San Antonio Christian edging Grace Community by one point in the team standings.
    Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Neither of them is going to sit around dithering.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • There was no dithering, just a window of opportunity narrowing by the minute.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Louisville airport is only a 10-minute drive from the city's downtown, which sits on the river bordering the Indiana state line.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The latter was taken hostage at the Nova Music Festival by Hamas during their horrific October 7, 2023 attack on Israeli communities bordering Gaza.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Chamandy said that, because of the ambiguity associated with the tariffs, companies are still hesitating to change suppliers until the dust settles.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Nov. 2025
  • For now, Ian’s hesitating to tell Mike.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 26 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
  • As a result, many civil servants are wary of serving baijiu at government functions; others are skirting the rule by disguising the clear liquor as water.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The technology, which gets deployed across the firm’s warehouse base, could potentially lead to Amazon skirting as much as 600,000 hirings by 2033.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Hemming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hemming. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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