(v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
(n.) A place mended by darning.
(v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) To non-artists, there may not seem to be anything original or provocative about love, death, loneliness or cheese, either – yet gosh-darned artists keep finding new ways for humanity to look at them.
(3) There were a similar number of sliding hernias in the Shouldice repair (14) and plication darn (20) groups.
(4) NBA.com writer Steve Aschburner notes that this is essentially a no-win situation for him : Physically, Rose faces a darned-if-he-does, darned-if-he-doesn't dilemma.
(5) It’s a darn sight better,” laughed Juris, “than visiting him in jail”.
(6) The British method known as "nylon darn" has shown to be effective in preservation of deep groin anatomy.
(7) Though she pursued further studies and wrote, Aung San Suu Kyi did bring up children, darn socks and run grocery errands.
(8) Masuku also rejected the firebrand leftist Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): "I read the EFF manifesto and I found some pretty good darned stuff there but they are so radical and so violent, they actually sound racist.
(9) That was pretty darn special, but only, you'll notice, a three-goal salvage job.
(10) This identified a considerable range in methods of repair, with a Moloney nylon darn being the sole method used by 35% of consultants, and the Shouldice technique, either alone or in combination with other methods, being used by 20%.
(11) Marc Ostwald from Monument Securities says: They haven't quite sold the complete amount but they got pretty darn close … Demand still very much more domestic than anything else.
(12) I got back into a program of recovery and life has been pretty darn good ever since,” she said.
(13) Another, tweaking an obscure bit of the film's dialogue, said: "I'm afraid you're just too darned disorganised."
(14) Darn, I was looking forward to seeing what sort of penalty Ozil would take ... 7.15pm BST Arsenal 2-2 Hull: half-time in extra-time Stay tuned!
(15) But, after days of patient care, one of the craft's wings has been stretched out into an approximation of its original shape, and the holes have been patched up with ovals of metal riveted on to the body work, like a large-scale piece of darning.
(16) He said: "Let's be frank, he [Brown] was a darn sight better than at prime minister's questions."
(17) Her speech is American-accented and peppered with "darn" and "have a nice day".
(18) patient age was 58.3(1.5) (range 20-84) years for Shouldice repair and 57.0(1.2) (range 18-85 years) for plication darn.
(19) The inguinal darn for recurrent inguinal hernias appears to have a lower recurrence rate than the reported 15% to 30% following other techniques.
(20) 'We’re too darned modest about what we do': Radio 3 boss Alan Davey's typical day Read more In that week’s Radio Times, the BBC’s director general, Sir William Haley, had set out the Third’s stall to the nation: “presenting the great classical repertoire in music and drama, and so far as they are broadcastable, in literature and the other arts … it will seek every evening to do something that is culturally satisfying and significant.” It was the year that everything changed for the arts in Britain.
Sew
Definition:
(n.) Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.
(v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to sue.
(v. t.) To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
(v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
(v. t.) To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.
(v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.
(v. t.) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The affinity of human C1q subcomponent for IgM of normal human serum and Waldenström macroglobulins of patients Sew and Zuk were investigated by the polyethylene glycol 6,000 immune complexes precipitation test.
(2) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
(3) The device can be used to locate a hypodermic needle at a distance of 50-90 mm, a sewing needle at 60-122 mm, a routine 7.62-mm bullet at 90 mm and a 5.6-mm bullet at 105 mm.
(4) The narrow lower part is sewed to the nasal mucous membrane with 3 atraumatic catgut sutures.
(5) The authors describe a simple Seldinger Catheter technique by which they removed a metallic sewing needle with attached thread from the esophagus of a 5 month old infant.
(6) Golby was raised in Hinckley, Leicestershire; his mother sewed knickers and his father worked in a factory, and there remains a matter-of-fact quality about him.
(7) A sewing needle, which penetrated the region of the wrist joint anteriorly, unknown to the patient, also penetrated the median nerve without causing any initial discomfort or neurological deficit.
(8) Angiography demonstrated the presence of an intra-aortic metallic foreign body that resembled a sewing needle.
(9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(10) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
(11) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
(12) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
(13) Three new cases of intracranial sewing needles are reported and are reviewed with 10 other published cases.
(14) First they sewed together their own Palestinian flags and hung them from trees near their school at a time when it was illegal to fly the flag.
(15) This paper was presented at the ICN SEW Resource Group meeting in Geneva.
(16) She learned to sew, and was also taught about personal health and hygiene.
(17) My brigade in the sewing shop works 16 to 17 hours a day.
(18) Jenny Rushmore, who blogs under Cashmerette , regularly shares her sewing plans and projects on her Instagram page – including her plans to make a swimsuit.
(19) BBC2's attempt to repeat the success of The Great British Bake Off – but with sewing – made a strong start with an average of 2.6 million viewers for The Great British Sewing Bee on Tuesday night.
(20) This technique was compared to transabdominal end-to-end anastomosis performed as low as possible, using the circular stapler and hand-sewing with a one-layer technique.