Sentence examples for seamstress from inspiring English sources

"It means your dad working all the overtime hours that London Transport will give you, aspiration means your mum, notwithstanding having eight children, works as a seamstress at home as well to make ends meet.

From her mother, a seamstress, she inherited an interest in fabric and design.

Mireya Quintero, a seamstress in San Cristóbal, became so desperate at one point because of the lack of toilet paper that she paid 100 bolívares ($1.25) each way for transportation to the border, and a further 700 bolívares for a 12-roll pack of paper.

The panoply of bustles, bodices and hats that fill the canvases in this show suggest that Renoir, the son of a tailor and a seamstress, was a seasoned fashionista, with an eye for the cutting-edge.

Eventually armourers to craft bows and arrows, carpenters to build houses, and seamstress to make clothing all appeared as specialist artisans, trading their wares for food produced by the hunters and shepherds.

"I'll wait another minute but then I have to go back to work," said Ifeoma Okfor, a seamstress who had been queuing for three hours one day in her slum on the edge of Lagos, the commercial capital on the southern coast.

Mrs Parks, now in her 80s, is commonly thought of as a humble seamstress, a black Everywoman.

Mr Harding relates that the Höss children played at being Kapos and inmates, wearing replicas of prisoners' armbands created by the family seamstress.

Ms Katz, a highly skilled seamstress from Argentina who once worked for Oscar de la Renta, answered an ad in Women's Wear Daily in October 1999.

Eyebrows were raised in 2005, for instance, when a retired Croatian seamstress bagged over $2m from a series of sophisticated options trades in advance of Reebok's takeover by Adidas-Salomon.

A seamstress beats time with a stick like a metronome, rapping knuckles when attention slips.