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 Translation for 'to sew' from English to Dutch
VERB   to sew | sewed | sewn / sewed
sewing | sews
SYNO to run up | to sew | to sew together | ...
naaiento sew
hechtento sew up
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Translation for 'to sew' from English to Dutch

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to sew
naaien

to sew up
hechten
Usage Examples English
  • Melco patented the ability to sew circles with a satin stitch, as well as arched lettering generated from a keyboard.
  • First of all, most of them knew how to sew quite well.
  • In 18th century America, needlepoint was used as a preparatory skill to train young women to sew their own clothing.
  • In high school, when the girls were required to sew Sunday dresses for themselves, O'Connor sewed a full outfit of underwear and clothes to fit her pet duck and brought the duck to school to model it.
  • A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread.

  • Minoan jewellery included many gold ornaments for women's hair and also thin gold plaques to sew onto clothing.
  • Her mother taught her and her sisters how to sew, she never received any formal training in fashion design.
  • Jews in Nazi Germany and German-occupied countries were required to sew yellow triangles with the star of David onto their clothing.
  • When they ate from this tree their nakedness appeared to them and they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden.
  • They are typically sold pre-sewn as one long circular stretch of cloth, though some vendors offer to sew them as a value-added service.

  • Successful completion of the course awards the participant a maroon lanyard to be worn over the left shoulder and a junior leaders badge to sew on to the left sleeve of their No.3 Service Dress (field uniform) to show they are a qualified Junior Leader.
  • Most of his projects were concerned with teaching women to sew, care properly for their children and practice good hygiene.
  • Machine quilting is the process of using a home sewing machine or a longarm machine to sew the layers together.
  • Some dancers choose to sew the ribbons and elastics onto the inside of the shoe, whereas others sew them outside onto the silk exterior.
  • Needles may be arranged in aesthetically pleasing configurations such as a smiley face, may be laced together like a corset, or may be used to sew on temporary decorations such as bells using sterile thread.

  • While it is known that these female missionaries taught the indigenous women how to sew, it is not certain that they taught them the craft of quilting or making bed coverlets.
  • For housewives, sewing machines enabled the production of ready-made clothing and made it easier for women to sew their own clothes; more generally, argues Barbara Burman, "home dressmaking was sustained as an important aid for women negotiating wider social shifts and tensions in their lives."
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