Seamstress is an English word with synonyms like dressmaker. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Seamstress meaning
A woman who sews clothes professionally.
Synonyms of Seamstress
Using Seamstress
- The main meaning on this page is: A woman who sews clothes professionally.
- Useful related words include: dressmaker, modiste, needlewoman, sempstress.
- In the example corpus, seamstress often appears in combinations such as: seamstress and, as seamstress, accomplished seamstress.
Context around Seamstress
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Seamstress
- In this selection, "seamstress" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, accomplished, expert, aisle, shortly, onelli and got stand out and add context to how "seamstress" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a local seamstress with a and a skilled seamstress and pianist. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "seamstress" sits close to words such as accesses, acrimonious and adeyemi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with seamstress
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She was an accomplished seamstress, knitter, cross stitcher, and crafter. (10 words)
In her spare time, Elaina was a skilled seamstress and pianist. (11 words)
Eleni, an accomplished seamstress, got a job sewing in a New York factory. (13 words)
Kimoto has fulfilled many roles at TIC from actor to backstage crew and most recently as a stage manager, while Dome is a local seamstress with a passion for period costumes who has helped out a number of TIC shows. (40 words)
Sarah Griffin, prosecuting, described how they both went upstairs to Ms Webb's sewing room, from which she ran her seamstress business - the 79-year-old "family friend" having been tasked with making alterations to Julia Shelley's wedding dress. (40 words)
Eight Saturdays and so we are doing financial literacy, social emotional learning, entrepreneurship at the end of the program and they are also doing sewing by an expert seamstress, onelli. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1956.
At 16, she sacrifices her education to work as a seamstress so her brothers can go to school and, she hopes, become prosperous.
Because I could go back to our village and do my work as a seamstress.
Eight Saturdays and so we are doing financial literacy, social emotional learning, entrepreneurship at the end of the program and they are also doing sewing by an expert seamstress, onelli.
Eleni, an accomplished seamstress, got a job sewing in a New York factory.
He was the oldest of eight children born to Giovanni Sarto, a postman, and his wife Margherita, a seamstress.
His mother - who had worked as a seamstress for the designer Cristobal Balenciaga - moved the family to Paris in 1939 after the Nationalist forces seized Madrid and won the war.
In another aisle, seamstress Clara Tedesco, 60, is “horrified” to see the price of cheese “has gone up again this week”.
In her spare time, Elaina was a skilled seamstress and pianist.
Kimoto has fulfilled many roles at TIC from actor to backstage crew and most recently as a stage manager, while Dome is a local seamstress with a passion for period costumes who has helped out a number of TIC shows.
She enlists the help of her friend Paloma, a seamstress, and Lamparilla, a barber, to overthrow the minister.
She was an amazing cook, seamstress, interior decorator, math wizard, vocalist, and musician (flute and piano).
St. Denis allowed Guy to train at the Denishawn school but not to dance with the company, hiring her instead as a seamstress and personal assistant.
Thankfully, a seamstress stepped in and fixed his pants literally an hour before the wedding.
An avid fabric artist, she expected to take more after her mother, who attended fashion school and was a seamstress in Korea.
And my mother, she got there and she found a job as a seamstress in haute couture.
But being a self-employed seamstress often isn’t about sewing, he explained.
Sarah Griffin, prosecuting, described how they both went upstairs to Ms Webb's sewing room, from which she ran her seamstress business - the 79-year-old "family friend" having been tasked with making alterations to Julia Shelley's wedding dress.
She was an accomplished seamstress, knitter, cross stitcher, and crafter.
She was the consummate decorator, seamstress, thespian, singer, artist, friend, wife, daughter, mother, and Christian.
Common combinations with seamstress
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- seamstress and 17×
- as seamstress 11×
- accomplished seamstress 7×
- was seamstress 7×
- talented seamstress 7×
- seamstress in 4×
- the seamstress 3×
- seamstress or 3×
- expert seamstress 2×
- seamstress for 2×