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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of resew.

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Examples

  • So last night I reunpicked these messes and resewed the hexagons as they once were.

    The Knitting Olympics girliejones 2010

  • She resewed old clothes for the children who grew too fast, kept three chicks in the kitchen until they were eaten by a cat, and later, during another famine, after World War II, bought the last rickety piglet off a horse-drawn cart that had stopped for a few minutes on their street.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • She resewed old clothes for the children who grew too fast, kept three chicks in the kitchen until they were eaten by a cat, and later, during another famine, after World War II, bought the last rickety piglet off a horse-drawn cart that had stopped for a few minutes on their street.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • So last night I reunpicked these messes and resewed the hexagons as they once were.

    The Knitting Olympics girliejones 2010

  • Tavara was the one who had mended Gordon, and she'd also resewed a couple of the acolyte's shifts so that Glory would have something to change into besides her jeans.

    The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

  • Myhre resewed the loose pages, replaced the leather cover and put in two ribbon markers, allowing Eleanor to once again read passages from it every morning, refer to it during Bible study on Wednesdays and again at church on Sundays.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • I measured the hat, went out and got ribbon and silver trim, came home and figured out that the silver trim was just not powerful enough to overcome the gold trim, took the gold trim off, found out that the danged gold trim had also been helping to keep the wire in the edge of the brim, resewed that with invisible thread, and now

    Kauri's Katharsis kauricat 2010

  • It soaked through both sides of the wrap, so do you think it would work if I unpicked the two pieces and resewed the wrap using an untreated piece of fabric for the outer - bearing in mind that it's stiff, so I wonder if pulling it right-side-out again after sewing might be difficult?

    Towards Sustainability 2010

  • It soaked through both sides of the wrap, so do you think it would work if I unpicked the two pieces and resewed the wrap using an untreated piece of fabric for the outer - bearing in mind that it's stiff, so I wonder if pulling it right-side-out again after sewing might be difficult?

    Towards Sustainability 2010

  • She got her models together, did their hair, stole a necklace off a stylist, resewed seven of the dressed, chewed out a photographer, fired an assistant, and wrote a book about how to raise children, all within 15 minutes.

    Gawker 2010

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