(n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
(v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
(v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
(2) There is no evidence that buying a house means you personallly lose your job a couple of years down the line, which suggests Britons will not easily be turned on by the idea of becoming a nation of renters.
(3) The paradox is that while Fergus and Judith Wilson can evict 200 benefit-receiving tenants in their Kent buy-to-let empire, confident they will be replaced by working renters, many from eastern Europe, in other places landlords are heavily reliant on benefits.
(4) The group, which campaigns for more affordable housing, used the English Housing Survey's income profile of private renters, and the Office for National Statistics' latest house price index, to work out how many people could afford the average first home, based on the assumption that a home is affordable if it is no more than four times household income.
(5) Other politicians think all housing problems can be tackled by simply building more houses, but Corbyn has recognised that this alone won’t give private renters the rights they need.” Both Corbyn and Healey made clear that housing is the biggest problem facing the UK, and committed to policies that many in the housing sector have been long argued for.
(6) Private renters account for more than 20% of the housing market; in 1985 the figure was 9% .
(7) A lack of rights for private renters puts them at risk of sudden eviction, even if they are up to date with the rent.
(8) In 2002, 100,000 private renters in London were forced to claim housing benefit in order to pay the rent; by the end of the New Labour era, rising rents had increased the number to 250,000.
(9) The Resolution Foundation thinktank has warned that the under-35s are becoming permanent renters , with home ownership reserved for the well-off and elderly.
(10) In the rest of Europe, Berlin still enjoys a reputation as a renters' paradise.
(11) We need to bring an end to these extortionate prices and give people real choices, by building the homes this nation needs.” UK tenants pay more rent than any country in Europe Read more Roger Harding for the housing charity Shelter said private renters “are bearing the brunt of our dramatic housing shortage”.
(12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
(13) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
(14) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
(15) Families in the UK pay an average £6,760 a year in housing costs alone, with mortgaged homeowners paying £7,436 compared to £8,320 for private renters, according to the 2010-11 English Housing Survey.
(16) Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, said: “As home ownership gets increasingly out of reach, ever more people will find themselves as permanent renters throughout their lives.
(17) For those of us who want a fairer deal for renters, this feels a lot like Groundhog Day – with the joke very much on us.
(18) Britain has up to 11 million private renters, often being charged rip-off rents and deprived of basic housing security.
(19) Ministers say the change tackles an unfair spare room subsidy not available to private-sector renters and suggest it will save around £500m a year as part of the government's deficit-reduction strategy.
(20) Banning upfront letting agency fees Facebook Twitter Pinterest To Let Signs on New Housing, houses, homes, houses for rent Photograph: Alamy Widely trailed as a plan to help “just about managing’ familes, the government’s plan to ban spiralling letting agency fees will benefit renters if it is introduced as planned.
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.