Dressmaking is an English word with synonyms like trade or craft. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dressmaking meaning
The craft of making custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.
Using Dressmaking
- The main meaning on this page is: The craft of making custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.
- Useful related words include: trade, craft.
- In the example corpus, dressmaking often appears in combinations such as: dressmaking and, and dressmaking.
Context around Dressmaking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dressmaking
- In this selection, "dressmaking" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vintage, classes, includes, business, skills and cosmetology stand out and add context to how "dressmaking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include catering and dressmaking and designing and dressmaking has been. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dressmaking" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dressmaking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Her vintage dressmaking business was coming to an end. (9 words)
It includes dressmaking, cosmetology, catering, secretariat and office management, screen printing and sport. (13 words)
A co-owner of a dressmaking shop in Paris, she became known as Princess Andrée Aga Khan. (17 words)
The Global Training Institute initially aimed at giving training to young women and men in catering and dressmaking and designing in order to contribute to Economic development and empowerment, and in fulfillment of God’s kingdom purpose. (37 words)
Georgette Umubyeyi, the president of Women's Association for World Peace Rwanda, said the school is adding two floors, to accommodate woodworking and welding classes, dressmaking and embroidery workshops, a beauty salon and a restaurant. (35 words)
Those attending the Scottish Quilting Show will also have access to The Creative Craft Show, featuring various crafts, demonstrations, and workshops, such as papercrafts, jewellery making, beading, knitting, stitching, and dressmaking. (31 words)
Example sentences (12)
Her vintage dressmaking business was coming to an end.
Those attending the Scottish Quilting Show will also have access to The Creative Craft Show, featuring various crafts, demonstrations, and workshops, such as papercrafts, jewellery making, beading, knitting, stitching, and dressmaking.
Determined to help families pull through the tragedies, she realized she could put her dressmaking skills to good use.
Georgette Umubyeyi, the president of Women's Association for World Peace Rwanda, said the school is adding two floors, to accommodate woodworking and welding classes, dressmaking and embroidery workshops, a beauty salon and a restaurant.
It includes dressmaking, cosmetology, catering, secretariat and office management, screen printing and sport.
Speaking at a short ceremony organized by the Association in Sunyani to outdoor its Project Ambassador, Mr Akoto said the apprentices were engage in hairdressing, dressmaking, tailoring, mechanics and carpentry.
The Global Training Institute initially aimed at giving training to young women and men in catering and dressmaking and designing in order to contribute to Economic development and empowerment, and in fulfillment of God’s kingdom purpose.
A co-owner of a dressmaking shop in Paris, she became known as Princess Andrée Aga Khan.
Dressmaking has been a major hobby up until the late 20th century, partly in order to make cheap clothes, but also as a creative design and craft challenge.
In Old Havana and throughout Vedado there are several small private businesses, such as shoe-repair shops or dressmaking facilities.
Mennonite farmer's wife dressmaking, Pennsylvania, 1942 Moderate Mennonites include the largest denominations, the Mennonite Brethren and the Mennonite Church.
The sides of the uniform had similarity to existing styles of Japanese dressmaking, and the collar had straight lines.
Common combinations with dressmaking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: