Sentence examples for hem from inspiring English sources

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hem

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An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.

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Women could try cutting the hem off an A-line skirt – raw edges are so Celine, which should be your 2010 wardrobe ambition.

"Is it a breathing pipe?" Paul absent-mindedly digs his nails into a lesion just below the hem of his shorts.

Anything as simple as rolling up a trouser hem counts as styling.

It was a sand-coloured one worn over army surplus-inspired ankle trousers by Dries Van Noten that convinced me I needed a knee-length hem.

A black velvet cocktail dress with an internal corset, ripped hem and petticoat of white multi-layered silk mousseline was stunning; a floor-length gown in black velvet, with white beads shimmering along the throat and down the curves of a plunging back view was more Angelina Jolie than Maleficent, and all the better for it.

The hem sat just on my knee, the belt went around my waist, rather than my backside, and it didn't gape around the armhole.

It's the front section of the hem on which you are in danger of stepping – I am assuming you mostly walk forwards – so raising that section up slightly makes striding out a breeze.

This is the time for anything black or white that has a feather trim, or a crystal neckline, or a band of velvet around the hem.

China suspects that, in practice, America tries to hem it in whenever it does anything on the world stage.

Spherical children distressingly round, and big enough to put their own lives at risk are the latest walking health-hazards to hit the nation's streets.Andrew Prentice, a professor of nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, suggested this week that obesity is now so widespread (hem) that it represents an evolutionary shift in human body-shape.

One ex-offender got her sister to buy heroin and send it sewn into the hem of a towel.In this section The reluctant kingmakers On the lamb Blustery They're back Still cramped Stuck in the middle Supply and remand Top of the class ReprintsThe prison drug market does not run on cash.

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