to sew together
7
2.3
- phrasal verb
- /soʊ təˈɡɛðər/
:
coser juntos
- Susan was ready to start sewing her quilt top together.
- sewn together cloth
- sewn together strips
And with that, what's the most important thing you've sewn together?
- And with that, what's the most important thing you've sewn together?
- And Marshley's boats are actually planks sewn together.
- And men, women and kids only one tunic made of several pieces of clothes cut and sewn together.
- A boat that you made out of Brillo pads sewn together with beeswax that had been dried and turned into twine.
- So when I was making this one, I sewed it together and my only idea was, hey, how am I going to get this off off of the form?
Examples
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She decided to sew together two fabric pieces to create a quilt.
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The strips, each about 10 centimeters (4") wide, are sewn together to create wider widths of fabric.
Academic text (1995) -
Mary: This flag is too big to sew together here.
Fiction book (1999) -
I cut them into strips and sewed them together to make longer strips.
Blog text (16) -
Well, she starts with two sweatshirts and she cuts them in half, and then she sews them together in a different way.
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Once these pieces were sewn together, they would do all the hand quilting and add the final binding.
Fiction book (1992) -
The cloth is composed of five strips of beaten bark sewn together.
Academic text (2005) -
If you're good with a needle and thread, you can sew the edges together instead.
Blog text (7) -
The saddle is made of different pieces of wood, ingeniously sewn together with wet rawhide.
Academic text (2006) -
Women or tailors give Baye Falls scraps of fabric to sew together into colorful patchwork clothing.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
242
1.0
Join, fix and make clothes and other things made of cloth using a needle and thread or a machine
99
2.5
To join or repair cloth with a needle and thread
6
3.9
To sew a hole or loose edge to make clothing whole again
3
3.6
To join pieces of cloth by sewing their edges together
Antonyms
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to join two or more pieces by sewing' is directly and compositionally derived from 'sew' (to attach using a needle) plus 'together' (into one or close proximity). This is a straightforward verb + particle construction common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Sew together comes from the simple action of using a needle and thread to join pieces of cloth. Sew means to stitch and together shows joining, so the phrase now means 'to join parts into one'.