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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sew.

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  • adjective fastened with stitches

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Examples

  • He stood about twenty feet from me wearing his oil-stained navy blue mechanic’s jacket, the one with the patch with his name sewed on it.

    Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set Richard Paul Evans 2009

  • Not until I had gone through the acts of a contortionist, and shown the round coin sewed in, did I succeed in getting the Carter's help.

    THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER 2010

  • Lopez pretended to check the small cloth label sewed on the side of the purse.

    Missing Justice Burke, Alafair 2004

  • Each figure is linked to the next by the thread of incident, person and incident passing on together until, as Lu Hsün, the famous modern Chinese writer, has said, «they are like scraps of brilliant silk and satin sewed together. »

    Pearl Buck - Nobel Lecture 1938

  • Not until I had gone through the acts of a contortionist, and shown the round coin sewed in, did I succeed in getting the

    The Carter and the Carpenter 1903

  • If any of you hear of a cloak found hereabouts, or any considerable part of one, blue without, lined with yellow, and trimmed with gold, please to note the name sewed on beneath the left shoulder, and send it according to the direction and your labor shall not be lost. '

    Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century William Ware 1824

  • They had the team title sewed up before the championship matches had begun.

    Kitsap Sun Stories 2010

  • Marvin about takin 'one o' the children and what a comfort it would be to the child to git out into the fresh air, and one mornin ''fore she left she took Jed down in the woods and talked to him, and the week after she left for home Marm Marvin sent me over to the station -- same place I fetched ye -- and out she got with a tag sewed on her jacket and her name on it, and a bundle o' clothes no bigger'n your head.

    The Under Dog Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • I’m wearing a heavy sweatshirt, my heaviest sweatshirt, the one Uncle Merlin sewed for my birthday a few years back, with the embroidered picture of Chatham Light on the back, and I can’t claim to be warm.

    Boids 2010

  • I’m wearing a heavy sweatshirt, my heaviest sweatshirt, the one Uncle Merlin sewed for my birthday a few years back, with the embroidered picture of Chatham Light on the back, and I can’t claim to be warm.

    Lance Mannion: 2010

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