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
The Dior fabric would be sewn into a custom wedding dress for a twenty-five-year-old bride-to-be, Keelie Verbeek, who had just driven down from New Hampshire.
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Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
Writing a manifesto can be like sewing rocks into your pockets.
—Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
While the Kenya Moore Hair Spa website is inactive, as of writing, bookings can still be done on Style Seat, a beauty services website, for multiple services, including silk presses, trims, blow outs, protein treatments, sew ins, quick weaves, take downs, scalp analyses, and wig installations.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 7 Apr. 2025
In such cases, surgeons now must often sew a wire onto the heart that’s attached to an external box that delivers a current to control the heart’s rhythm.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
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Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
Writing a manifesto can be like sewing rocks into your pockets.
—Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
While the Kenya Moore Hair Spa website is inactive, as of writing, bookings can still be done on Style Seat, a beauty services website, for multiple services, including silk presses, trims, blow outs, protein treatments, sew ins, quick weaves, take downs, scalp analyses, and wig installations.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 7 Apr. 2025
In such cases, surgeons now must often sew a wire onto the heart that’s attached to an external box that delivers a current to control the heart’s rhythm.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sew
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Advanced tools built on AI can crawl the web, stitch content together and send it back to us.—
Deepa Nagraj,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Polidori family arrived at McGregor Square in downtown Denver on the day of the April 4 Colorado Rockies home opener decked in team gear and jackets with the logo of their company, Polidori Sausage, stitched on the front.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
15 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 7 May. 2025.
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