noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sewing machine
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Can I borrow your sewing machine to make some curtains?
sewing machine
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
machine
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Dressmaking and sewing machines are totally foreign to many would-be kite flyers.
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If I do another cardigan in this way I shall do two or even three lines on the sewing machine .
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A single strand of technological evolution connects electronic sewing machines , electronic typewriters, and flexible electronic workstations.
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My father died among old sewing machines , echo of bridges and water in his hand.
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I find a zig-zag tends to pucker the fabric, but this may differ with makes of sewing machine .
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One of them provides income-earning assets to families: sewing machines , for example.
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When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine .
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She searched the attic, and found a hammer lying between a sewing machine and a stuffed bird.
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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The quilt was a truly beautiful piece of sewing .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of them can then double as a desk, homework table, sewing or drawing table.
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Dressmaking and sewing machines are totally foreign to many would-be kite flyers.
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I'd usually leave the washing until Sunday, also the sewing and mending.
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I taught on all makes of machine and have also worked in stores and at exhibitions, selling knitting and sewing machines.
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It was an evening when I knew Lily went to a weekly patriotic sewing and knitting circle in a near-by parish hall.
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She would have her hair nicely done and I might be doing a bit of sewing .
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The sewing industry in Saratov reported that its factories were closing in January through lack of demand for its products.
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The tent-pole bag was torn, so I put it on one side with the sewing kit.