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Definition of Sew
Sew
Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.

To follow; to pursue; to sue.

To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.

To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.

To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.

To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.

To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.


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Sew Quotations
I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.
Tim Conway

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
Jane Rule

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Fran Drescher

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
Sara Blakely

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
Phyllis McGinley

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.
Susan Powter

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.
Andy Van Slyke


Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.
Harry Crosby

More Sew Quotations

Sew Translations
sew in Afrikaans is naaldwerk doen
sew in Danish is sy
sew in Dutch is aanzetten, aannaaien, vastnaaien
sew in French is cousez, cousons, couds, coudre, cousent
sew in Italian is cucire
sew in Norwegian is sy
sew in Spanish is coser
sew in Swedish is sy






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