How to Use seamstress in a Sentence

seamstress

noun
  • My dad worked as a beach warden, and my mom was a seamstress.
    — Vogue, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Her father mined lead and coal and her mother was a seamstress.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The dead come to life with fun outfits crafted by the seamstress.
    — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Her father was a plumber, and her late mother had been a seamstress.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • When someone called Rivera with a death threat, the seamstress fled.
    — Esmeralda Bermudez, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • Rutherford was a seamstress and loved making clothes and quilts.
    — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • His father was a cook and his mother was a seamstress and waitress.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Her father was a milkman and her mother a seamstress and maid.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • His father was a printer, and his mother was a seamstress and store clerk.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • His father worked for the railroad and his mother was a seamstress.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 May 2026
  • His wife worked as a seamstress and bookkeeper for the business.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • My mother would take me to a fabric store, and then to a seamstress to have my designs made.
    — Joshua Levine, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2017
  • The Bucs needed a good seamstress to change all the names on the backs of the uniforms.
    — Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Our goal is to hire a seamstress who can re-create things for us from those unusable items.
    — Sandra Barrera, Daily News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • So much of it was pawnshops, watch and eyeglass repair, and sewing and seamstress shops.
    — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The women who don’t have a voice, like seamstresses and makeup artists.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025
  • That scene with the black seamstress, the one who said your father wouldn't want you in her house -- why did that make a mark?
    — John Blake, CNN, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Working with a hand needle, a good seamstress took about 14 hours to make a shirt.
    — Virginia Postrel, Star Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The city reached out to a local seamstress who came to the rescue and volunteered her time.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2022
  • His father was a steam train engineer and his mother was a seamstress.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 8 June 2026
  • Luckily, my friend is a master seamstress and repairs my shoe on the spot.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Her favorite piece is the Barbie house, a nod to her origins as a seamstress.
    — Missy Wilkinson, NOLA.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The wife of someone who worked at BMA was a seamstress and pitched in.
    — Alex Tzelnic, Outside Online, 6 June 2025
  • Local seamstresses are given their time and skills to teach the interns the trade.
    — Rebecca Walter, The Seattle Times, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Maria Nasious has worked as a seamstress at Ted’s for 45 years.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The fair wage for a seamstress in the Dallas market is up to $15 an hour.
    — Lauren Lee, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Or someone needed a seamstress.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In 2003, the shop had six seamstresses who worked in the sewing room upstairs.
    — Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • Her mother, Masha, was a seamstress who was forced to sew clothes for Adolf Hitler's army.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 6 June 2024
  • Atkins grew up in rural Virginia, the daughter of a coal miner and a seamstress.
    — Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024

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