My mother sewed most of my clothes when I was a child.    From LearnThat.org. 

Verb (used with object) : to sew flour in a bag.    From Dictionary.com. 

They had the team title sewed up before the championship matches had begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kitsap Sun Stories] Reference

Lopez pretended to check the small cloth label sewed on the side of the purse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing Justice]

Not until I had gone through the acts of a contortionist, and shown the round coin sewed in, did I succeed in getting the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carter and the Carpenter] Reference

Not until I had gone through the acts of a contortionist, and shown the round coin sewed in, did I succeed in getting the Carter's help.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People of the Abyss] Reference

I was in school -- a little accident and kind of sewed up my eye here.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Discussion With Teens In Charlotte Nc] Reference

Harriet "sewed" -- and sewed well.    From Wordnik.com.  [K] Reference

(Soundbite of laughter) CONAN: ... calling people sewed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Tuesday For Tea Party Candidates] Reference

Besides, he's already got the Let-Them-Eat-Cake vote sewed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Staying on Bush’s Course] Reference

And, all night, under the lamp, she contrived, cut out and sewed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

The helmet is made in two parts, which afterward are sewed together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet] Reference

On one she sewed a red J; on the second a blue M; on the third a pink H.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference

I cut it out myself, basted it together, then sewed it with my utmost care.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

He removed one of Morgan's ovaries and sewed a strip with eggs into Yarber's ovaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Your Health] Reference

And ma lost three buttons off her black silk yesterday, and won't have them sewed on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

The frame must be covered with a light, strong canvas, cut and sewed to make a good fit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

So Angus sewed the snazzy suit with a better biter claw, not half bad complete people at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quirky Poetry Collection a Salute to Silly Stanzas] Reference

Working with the tailor who sewed samples for Club Monaco, he made five suits for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [SUITS US IF IT SUITS HIM] Reference

It hung by a thread, being one of the pair usually sewed on the back of a cutaway garment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune] Reference

 Of course after he left, I found every single of them, and sewed them back on for the next time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinderella's Lament] Reference

They bought two t-shirts the day of the preseason game, cut them in half, and sewed them back together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Ravens fan images] Reference

But we sweated and swore over them, sewed pieces backward, stabbed our fingers with pins until they bled.    From Wordnik.com.  [We] Reference

               My vine is a deep olive, which twisted, and sewed its way through the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A D O N I S] Reference

He cut a neat square around the burn, folded the cloth over, sewed it perfectly and sent the actress on her way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dondurma] Reference

"Tablets are still in their infancy and Apple has sewed up this space through the end of this year," says Bajarin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has Microsoft Blown the Timing on Tablet PCs?] Reference

Jacqueline, sitting beside her as she sewed, was soothed by her old nursery tales, or by anecdotes of former days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Penelope sewed for love; those unnamed girls — sister of swans, spinner of straw to gold — sewed for their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sewing the Labyrinth] Reference

Mizrahi sketched his designs, sewed them up and flew them to Target headquarters for a private fashion show in early 2002.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaac Hits His Target] Reference

TWO ENTERPRISING WOMEN IN THE late 1970s, the story goes, sewed a pair of jockstraps together to make the first sports bra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bra-Beaten] Reference

She slashed and sewed up the one-of-a-kind gown with her trademark exposed seams and jagged edges directly on Nadler's body.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cut Above The Rest] Reference

     Palin winked and talked nonsense and sewed up the peckerwood lard cans, and kept the race tight going into October.    From Wordnik.com.  [The '08 Campaign And the Crash] Reference

This letter was sewed in the lining of the man's doublet, and he was told to be very careful not to speak of it to any person.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

Her expenses were low, but to save more money, she took trimmings from old skirts and sewed them onto new ones to spruce them up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Hula (excerpt)] Reference

Then he was searched, and they found on him that which was sewed in his doubtlet; and the poor messenger was handed and strangled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

Using a basic flat-front straight-leg design, Tapia sewed the first pair by hand and then wore them to see where the weaknesses were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Focus On Style] Reference

The tailor went out then, and he got a sheep-skin, and he sewed it up till he made a bag of it, and he slipped it down under his coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference