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The word "stitches" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a type of suture on an injury, or to refer to the pattern or rows of a fabric. For example: "She carefully examined the stitches on her daughter's forehead, where the cut had been stitched up."
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stitches
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Third person singular of stitch
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If anything about my bag is going to give away my amateur status, it's wonky stitches.
Sure, some of the stitches could have been neater.
The blow behind his ear left Thomson requiring five stitches – some reports say he almost lost his ear completely in the incident – and with a splitting headache for the rest of the match.
One was the story of a 22-year-old black man, who was beaten so badly when Chicago police found him smoking marijuana that he awoke from consciousness in Cook County jail with "22 stitches in my tongue, two facial fractures, bruised ribs, scrapes all over my body … an orbital fracture, a nasal fracture".
One false move here, I discover, and my stitches don't stand a chance.
On the train home, inspecting my old, beloved leather bag, I'm disappointed that the stitches appear machine-made: I have new appreciation of what "handmade" means.
"I got some stitches at halftime and after that it was alright, but still [vision was] a bit blurry," he said.
Baggio played on for the remaining 10 minutes of the match but required five stitches after.
My holes are all over the place, many entering the leather at an angle, so my stitches resemble a set of tiny, uneven teeth.
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But before a cotton dress is cut and stitched it is dyed and printed; before that it is woven from yarn into cloth; before that it is spun from raw cotton into yarn.
Click to view Jessy Lanza's Kathy Lee here What we said: "For all the mash-ups, Bangerz feels stitched together in the dark, and the attention-seeking begins to grate.
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