Explore Hemmed through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hemmed meaning
simple past and past participle of hem
Using Hemmed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of hem
- In the example corpus, hemmed often appears in combinations such as: hemmed in, be hemmed, hemmed and.
Context around Hemmed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hemmed
- In this selection, "hemmed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bibi, hockey, dwelling and garment stand out and add context to how "hemmed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and never hemmed in himself and before skyscrapers hemmed the qvb. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hemmed" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and absolve, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hemmed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hedgerows hemmed the town’s southern approaches. (7 words)
Bibi hemmed in, US watching: What caused Israel turmoil? (9 words)
Like his country, Macron ends up hemmed in between two extremes. (11 words)
For instance, on the evening of Oct. 7th, while Hamas butchers were still in Israeli territory, n’s Jerusalem correspondent tearing down the walls that have hemmed in Gaza’s 2.3m people for 16 years was unthinkable. (38 words)
Lynne Britten of Charlestown describes herself as the “daughter of a Depression-taught, frugal housewife” and says: “Rebecca should sew the two halves of the sheet back together, but with the worn edges on the outside and hemmed. (38 words)
Repeatedly, they allowed stretch passes to go through the neutral zone and for most of the game, they got forced into playing chip-and-change hockey, hemmed in and entirely on the back foot. (34 words)
Bibi hemmed in, US watching: What caused Israel turmoil? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
At times, the tin container may be ‘hammered’ or ‘hemmed-in’ in a bid to reduce ‘loading space’ (volume) and a price fixed for the content.
Bibi hemmed in, US watching: What caused Israel turmoil?
It’s honestly a better version of the movie, which doesn’t feel as hemmed in by the demands of ratings board.
Repeatedly, they allowed stretch passes to go through the neutral zone and for most of the game, they got forced into playing chip-and-change hockey, hemmed in and entirely on the back foot.
This is why the the right to protest is definitely a fundamental right, which is hemmed in by restrictions that are vague enough to render this fundamental right a chimera.
When the friend who helped us move took one look at our new dwelling, hemmed in by railroad lines, he was aghast.
Yes, they hemmed and hawed about all their reasonings for launching PvP first, but so many of these changes to the game’s structure have been a pivot, rather than what they initially pitched.
For instance, on the evening of Oct. 7th, while Hamas butchers were still in Israeli territory, n’s Jerusalem correspondent tearing down the walls that have hemmed in Gaza’s 2.3m people for 16 years was unthinkable.
In a departure from her usual long-trousered look, she hemmed the bottoms, showing off pointed brown shoes that co-ordinated with a brown belt.
Like his country, Macron ends up hemmed in between two extremes.
She then hands the coat to a housemaid, telling her it needs to be hemmed and cleaned.
So, if you’re feeling hemmed in by anything this week then get out of it.
The sturdy, double-hemmed garment invites her grandmother Christine, who sewed it by hand and wore it often before she died in 1994, to join her.
Before skyscrapers hemmed the QVB in, you could see across she harbour to check if the enemy approached.
But for two movies, Warner Bros. hemmed and hawed and tried to stand by Depp, and only now are they deciding to cut their losses.
Hedgerows hemmed the town’s southern approaches.
Hemmed in by high pink cliffs, the lake is actually a sunken cave and the lava-hot water bubbles up from deep within the Hymettus.
Lynne Britten of Charlestown describes herself as the “daughter of a Depression-taught, frugal housewife” and says: “Rebecca should sew the two halves of the sheet back together, but with the worn edges on the outside and hemmed.
Tandon kept an open house and never hemmed in himself in political boundaries.
That is a party whose policy ambitions would be hemmed in by the concerns of those already doing fairly well.
Common combinations with hemmed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hemmed in 30×
- be hemmed 7×
- hemmed and 6×
- is hemmed 3×
- hemmed the 3×
- feeling hemmed 3×
- hemmed by 3×
- they hemmed 2×
- and hemmed 2×
- was hemmed 2×