Read full poem →Byron interposed on behalf of a girl, who "in compliance with the strict
letter of the Mohammedan law," had been sewn in a sack and was about to
be thrown into the sea. "I was told," adds Lord Sligo, "that you then
Dictionary Entry
To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
In a Sentence
“Balls were first made of grass or leaves held together by strings, and later of pieces of animal skin sewn together and stuffed with feathers or hay.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
together sewn. sewnonto sewn
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Poetry examples for “sewn”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,