Example sentences for: stitching

How can you use “stitching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Such stitching generally outlasts the fabric of jeans, as one can see from looking at the holey knees of jeans worn by many teenagers.

  • Wrong stitching can be pulled out and a seam redone in the sewing room, but a big mistake by a cutter can involve the loss of many yards of cloth—and cloth costs range from one or two dollars a yard for inexpensive fabrics to three hundred dollars for some cashmeres.

  • We sat together at one summer's end,That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,And you and I, and talked of poetry.I said, "A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.Better go down upon your marrow-bonesAnd scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stonesLike an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;For to articulate sweet sounds togetherIs to work harder than all these, and yetBe thought an idler by the noisy setOf bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymenThe martyrs call the world."

  • In a factory setting, lockstitch machines are used for the decorative stitching that is necessary whenever the undersurface of a garment piece will be seen during normal wear, such as in the collar and cuffs of a dress shirt.

  • Instead of stapling or stitching surgical wounds, doctors can now affix paper strips to either side of an incision and gently pull them together with a polyethylene zipper.


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