Stitch

//stɪt͡ʃ//

"Stitch" in a Sentence (46 examples)

"A stitch in time saves nine" is a proverb.

You'll learn in time that a stitch in time saves nine.

He didn't do a stitch of work.

A stitch in time saves nine.

I'm a beginner, so I think I'll start from a 'garter stitch' muffler or a 'knit-one-purl-one stitch' one.

I have many unused cross stitch patterns at home.

He thinks cross stitch is for girls only.

I just bought three new cross stitch kits.

She thought cross stitch was a good substitute for oil paintings.

Who said cross stitch is strictly for women only?

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I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.

cross stitch

herringbone stitch

I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.

After about fifteen minutes I got terrible stitch.

a stitch in the side

He was the next day taken with an oppreſſion, and as it ſeemed with a cold and with ſtitches, which was indeed a pluriſy.

Violent continuous stitch in the region of the heart, the stitches multiplied when arresting the breathing. […] Feeling of heaviness in the muscles of the neck; he is obliged to bend his neck backwards. Cramp-like pain in right muscles of the neck, terminating in a stitch; the pain went off after motion and returned afterwards. […] Dull stitches in the region of the haunch-bones; pressure on the parts causes a simple pain. […] Drawing stitch in the right thigh, not perceptible when standing or ascending an elevation.

A sharp stitch in the left side of the head, on sitting down […] A sharp stitch in the upper part of the right side of the head, […]

drop a stitch

take up a stitch

[Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down.

to wet every stitch of clothes

She didn’t have a stitch (of clothing) on.

"Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]

I would go out tonight / But I haven't got a stitch to wear

About DUNSTABLE they plow much in Stitches : and in Essex some very good Farmers practise this Method with very great Success; making five Stitches when they come to sow, which five make a Perch, so that between every two Stitches there is a Thorough a Foot wide.

[…]for your oxen choose Two males of nine years old, for then their use Is most available, since their strengths are then Not of the weakest, and the youthful mean Sticks in their nerves still; nor will these contend With skittish tricks, when they their stitch should end, To break their plough, and leave their work undone.

More than 19,000 people commented, along with more stitches than she could count, Sallee said.

One answer that appeared in multiple comments and stitches was that women often think about the possibility of being victims of violence.

The stitches, as they are called on TikTok, nearly always end in agreement that Ms. Vidal was right — store-bought pesto is indeed an inferior product.

Now plow down your Weat-stitches, by running the Two-wheel Fallow-Plough three or four times through each Stitch, which will almost level the Ground;

If you talke / Or pull your face into a ſtich againe, / As I love truth I ſhall be very angry.

to stitch a shirt bosom.

to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.

With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

You can prevent warping and get a very strong weld by stitching your pieces together.

For example, the butt joint can be welded with the continuous technique or the stitch technique.

Apply cement and stitch as necessary. A hot knife can be used to seal down loose seams.

Whereas liturgically, in the sacramental narrative of the Cross, worshippers are stitched into a salvation story, cinema spectators are stitched into a narrative in which the ordinary guy overcomes the Other in an extraordinary situation.

However, it is the depth and breadth of your scholarship, your incisive and decisive writing, your numerous books exemplifying this masterful craftsmanship (I stopped counting after nineteen), your wit, and your relentless resolve to listen and get it right that are now stitched into my memories.

Effective landscape-scale conservation thus calls for stitching the management of public, tribal, and private lands together using collaborative processes to achieve mutual social and ecological objectives.

The scheme promises to stitch parts of the city back into the commuter rail map, to reshape short urban journeys, and to relieve some of the pressure on the city's roads and bus routes.

I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.

One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰

She talks briefly about their park picnic and then inserts a cliffhanger: “I’m going to stitch this when we’re either in a relationship or he absolutely obliterates my self-esteem.” (Stitch is a creation tool that allows users to add new content to an existing video.)

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