sew
/sjuː/ verb C2- Of a ship, to be grounded.
He/she/it sews · Past sewed · Past participle sewed · -ing form sewing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sew
- He/she/it
- sews
- Past
- sewed
- Past participle
- sewed
- -ing form
- sewing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Now, if you will help me sew the silk together, we will begin to work on our balloon.”
It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was finished they had a big bag of green silk more than twenty feet long.
On Saturday it rained and she worked herself up into such a frantic state lest it should keep on raining until and over Wednesday that Marilla made her sew an extra patchwork square by way of steadying her nerves.
I used the most pathetic language I could think of and said ‘thou’ and ‘thee.’ ‘Thou’ and ‘thee’ seem so much more romantic than ‘you.’ Diana gave me a lock of her hair and I’m going to sew it up in a little bag and wear it around my neck all my life.
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