SEW in a Sentence

Learn SEW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

139 example sentences for SEW, such as:

1. My mother taught me how to sew.
2. She is going to teach me to sew.
3. Several knit, and a few sew a little.
4. She has only come to sew my dress for me.
5. Her mother had always done all the sewing.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of SEW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sew
 v.  fasten by sewing; do needlework
 v.  create (clothes) with cloth
Classic Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
1  She had never had to sew tiny rows of silk ruffles in the lining of her basques, as most sixteen-year- old girls did, to give their figures the desired curves and fullness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Melanie's small parlor looked as serene as it usually did on nights when Frank and Ashley were away and the women gathered together to sew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  The longer she sat silent in the peaceful room, trying to sew, listening to Melanie's voice, the tighter her nerves stretched.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  "I'm just too nervous to sew," she declared, throwing her mending to the floor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  Lily had taken up her work early in January: it was now two months later, and she was still being rebuked for her inability to sew spangles on a hat-frame.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  Miss Bart, I guess you can sew those spangles on as well as I can when you're feeling right.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  She is going to teach me to sew.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
8  I've always liked to sew, but I never had much to do with.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
9  She instituted regular hours and employments for her, and undertook to teach her to read and sew.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  All were busy at home, John absent till night, and nothing to do but sew, or read, or potter about.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
11  You know Mrs. Kirke wrote to you for some respectable young person to teach her children and sew.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
12  She has only come to sew my dress for me.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
13  Several knit, and a few sew a little.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  These could already read, write, and sew; and to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  That's to play the green girl again and sew samplers.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Surgeons were able to sew the finger back on.
2  His finger was cut off when he caught it in a machine, but the surgeon was able to sew it back on.
3  Next day, Miss Stone decided to sew up the rip.
4  My mother taught me how to sew.
5  I'll keep the trouser patch in place with pins while I sew it on.
6  Stuff the cushion and then sew up the final seam.
7  If you leave me, please don't comfort me because each sewing has to meet stinging pain.
8  She put a thimble over the finger when sewing.
9  This sewing machine is operated by a foot pedal.
10  It's so annoying having to drag out the sewing machine every time I want to make a dress.
11  The magazine covers a broad range of subjects, from sewing to psychology.
12  Her mother had always done all the sewing.
13  I wouldn't have the patience to sit sewing all day.
14  I know a woman whose first-floor rooms are very artistically furnished in blue and gray, whose boudoir is in rose and ivory, and whose sewing room is in softest gray.
15  The poor adjunct professor hid the threadbare spots on his jacket by sewing leather patches on his sleeves.