sewed

past tense of sew
as in stitched
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 sewed The runway opened with the Beginner Hoodie, the first Vivet piece Cenat sewed by hand, following months spent studying construction and manufacturing in Italy. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026 Jordan sewed sage green curtains to conceal additional storage spaces and further brighten the space. — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Sweetgrass baskets are sewed with Low Country sweetgrass, bulrush, pine needles, and palmetto fronds. — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 Leather Fringe Long before America was colonized, Indigenous tribes like the Lakota and Shoshone in the Great Plains region sewed deerskin fringe trim on their garments. — Faran Krentcil, InStyle, 1 July 2026 Getting back on the bike Earlier this year, Humphreys traveled to California to meet the Edwards Lifesciences team members who hand-sewed his aortic valve. — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026 Craig Conover sewed his first pillow in his seventh-grade home ec class. — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 June 2026 Growing up, her mother sewed all of her clothes, Cantway-Cook said. — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026 There were no Italian flags on sale anywhere, so Infantino’s mother bought strips of red, white, and green fabric and sewed them together herself. — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
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  • Miller, 85, flew in from California nine days ago to follow the campaign in its final days and sell merchandise — buttons that read ‘Make Love Not War,’ hats that stitched with ‘GULF OF MEXICO EST 1550’ across the face.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The ties are all made from silk or silk blends, are slip-stitched and hand-finished.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026
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  • Existing approaches have typically relied on relatively bulky energy-harvesting devices sutured onto organs, which have struggled to generate practically useful amounts of power.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026

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“Sewed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sewed. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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