Synonym: border, edge, rim. Similar words: them, hemp, theme, mayhem, anthem, scheme, the more, chemist. Meaning: [hem] n. lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down. v. 1. fold over and sew together to provide with a hem 2. utter `hem' or `ahem'.
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31. A gust of wind whipped the lacy hem of his alb around his legs, and he tugged it free.
32. She wore a long, pale grey dress, trimmed with pink ostrich feathers round the hem.
33. At last he finished, gave a loud belch and wiped his greasy fingers and mouth on the hem of his ermine-lined cloak.
34. Polly turned the deadlock,[http://sentencedict.com/hem.html] and before reaching for the latch dabbed at her eyes with the hem of her nightshirt.
35. You hem me in, behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
36. It is a soiled and puckered hem, the golden treasury's privy purse.
37. The hem of the long smock descended like a bell of light around her legs.
38. I reached out my crooked arm and touched the hem of her royal blue robe and her matching cloth slippers.
39. When the gores have been sewn together, shroud loops are added at each hem, that is, one for each hem.
40. Justice Thomas is on the court, with mud clinging to the hem of his robe.
41. Sheila became aware of the hem of her dress slowly rising.
42. There are two zipped pockets and knitted hem and cuffs.
43. The peripheral hem blew back over the canopy, dividing it into two lobes.
44. You will gradually bring these needles back to working position to form the curve lower edge above the hem.
45. She recognized the fat calves under the long skirt with the ragged hem.
46. Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt, which she'd pulled up on that side.
47. There are elasticated adjustable drawcords on the hem, waist and on the hood.
48. As the drop-ship yawed away, fleeing, a hem of the cat's cradle dipped towards it.
49. Beneath a man's jacket the woman wore a gaudy satin slip streaked at the hem with blood.
50. Cuffs and hem are adjusted by flaps and poppers, using the natural spring of the fleece.
51. Knit a hem in the usual way in stocking stitch ending with the carriage at the right.
52. Narrow double-stitched hem is suitable for fine lightweight fabrics to finish off single-sided frills.
53. Six black heavies hem us in, want to know why we are snooping.
54. Finally, hem all round the cloth to give a neat finish.
55. I turned the jeans inside out to repair the hem.
56. The heel of her shoe had kicked out the hem and the skirt was bedraggled.
57. Pin in place and stitch the folds of the mitre with a drawstitch and hem or slipstitch the remainder of the hem.
58. They became an accounting device to help managers, not a control device to hem them in.
59. She wears traditional dress: a white, high-necked blouse and a dark ankle-length sarong with an embroidered band around the hem.
60. Contrast color puffy sleeves and frilled hem.
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