Example Sentences

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"We thought one of our friends was stitching us up," said Mrs Knight.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2021

In the garage clinic, a veterinary ophthalmologist from Indianapolis, Heidi Klein, was stitching Kryxis’s eyelid together after removing a triangular section that was missing the dark rim elsewhere.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2019

A minute later, while attending to the wounds on the man’s legs, I looked up and saw that she was stitching him again.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 29, 2017

For his first feature, The Golden Age of Comedy, he was stitching together scenes from the silent film comedies and wanted The Battle of the Century’s legendary pie fight.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2015

Leonora turned as crimson as the woolwork she was stitching.

From The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life by Campbell, John