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Example sentences for: plies

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Thirty plies of denim might be cut together, whereas a hundred to three hundred plies of men’s dress-shirt fabric might be cut at one time.
Otherwise, the operator turns the machine wheel to get the needle in the up position, lowers the presser foot, sews the beginning of the seam, backstitches to lock the seam, grabs the two plies of cloth near where the seam will end, and guides the cloth through the sewing machine.
The vertical knife oscillates less than three-quarters of an inch but can cut cloth plies a foot or more in thickness.
If two plies of flat cloth of identical length are placed on top of each other and sewn together, then the ends of the two pieces will not line up without the intervention of a sewing operator.
Once a ply is laid down, it is almost impossible to shift it because of the friction between the plies.