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Example sentences for: notches
How can you use “notches” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It reports that Prout is a "womanizer with more notches on his bedpost than Casanova."
The notches are the basic instruction to sewing operators regarding where the fabric pieces to be joined should match up or be aligned.
In a sense, these notches visually encode the basic sewing instructions into each pattern piece of the garment.
This allowance serves two purposes: First, the sewn seam must be made far enough in from the edge of the cloth so that it will not pull free of the cloth; second, the seam allowance provides a region into which small alignment notches can be cut.
Grès or Madeleine Vionnet, for instance--two neoclassic and erotic designers not at all averse to using bodily exposure--and then fantasticated a few notches further.