verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sewing machine
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Can I borrow your sewing machine to make some curtains?
sew on a button
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It doesn't take a minute to sew on a button.
sewing machine
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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Amin ordered that the body should be sewn back together.
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Later, police rushed the damaged nose part to hospital where it was sewn back on by delicate plastic surgery.
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Birds sewed back and forth over the line.
on
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This Teddy, so the tale went, had had one paw removed and a small flail with leather tails sewn on .
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The leather ring on my left shoulder had the holster sewn on near the bottom.
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Instead, I thought bitterly, I sewed on , with my skin whole and I sewed for strangers.
together
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Slip lasting has uppers sewn together under the insole.
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If you pull too hard on the place where the fabric is sewn together , what happens to a quilt?
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Two heavy pieces of leather sewn together and stuffed with money.
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In the weeks to come, Felicity would show me patches sewn together by hand.
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These themes and features, so well sewn together are what make Great Expectations a truly great book.
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When the gores have been sewn together , shroud loops are added at each hem, that is, one for each hem.
up
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It was about the theft of registered mail - I think we've got it sewn up .
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The room was filled with fine sprays of blood until he got it sewed up .
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Is there any chance of a job or has the Godfather Of Soul got the market sewn up ?
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President Ford had the nomination all but sewed up .
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He believes they will win in the new town areas where they already have the local council seats sewn up .
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He couldn't wait to get me sewn up , could he?
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For the lawyers have it all sewn up .
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And did he have their little scarves sewn up into a patchwork quilt?
■ NOUN
cut
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But at last with your help I've conquered the cut and sew , I could give you all a hug.
hand
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Pattern cutters, fitters, sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed.
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In the weeks to come, Felicity would show me patches sewn together by hand .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sewing/quilting etc bee
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I don't mean sermons, or those awful sewing bees we used to have.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Where did you learn to sew so well?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Construction: shingle construction - sections of fibre are sewn to the outer and liner and overlaid to eliminate any cold spots.
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Granted, any skilled practitioner could make a set of numbers sew a quilt that could cover an airplane hangar.
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I washed out a pair of tights and sewed on a button.
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I went back to my sewing.
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More and more women work and have less time to sew and do crafts.
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One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button.
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She learned to sew and made maternity smocks he tried to admire.