Fixing, as the bottom of a skirt

Usage examples of hemming.

Scorrier also bowed, and Hemmings, leaning back, slowly developed the full resources of his waistcoat.

A note from Hemmings reached him asking if he could make it convenient to attend their Board meeting the following Thursday.

As he was going out, the chairman, old Jolyon Forsyte, with a grave, twinkling look at Hemmings, took him aside.

To Scorrier, however, he could not show enough affection: The first evening, when Hemmings had gone to his room, he jumped up like a boy out of school.

Intuition of danger had evidently smitten Hemmings, for he made no allusion to the object of his visit.

Pippin shrank so visibly that Hemmings seemed troubled by a suspicion that he had gone too far.

Underneath the photograph of the lost shaft Hemmings was buttonholed by the Rev.

Hemmings, she'd occupied once before—and listened to the deep bongs of the longcase clock on the landing send waves through the silence of the house.

One tank was deadlined with problems in its main-gun loading mechanism, and Lieutenant Hemmings had come down with the rolling crud, so Birdie Sparrow was in charge of the platoon's three remaining tanks.

One tank was deadlined with problems in its main-gun loading mechanism, and Lieutenant Hemmings had come down with the rolling crud, so Birdie Sparrow was in charge of the platoon’s three remaining tanks.

While Petrofsky was crouched over his one-time pad deciphering the message and the Stephanides brothers were serving moussaka and shish kebab to a line of people who had just left the nearby bars at closing time, Preston was in the police station, on the phone to Sir Bernard Hemmings.

At the heart of the storm, Hemmings stumbled, swiftly fastening the safety catches of his spacesuit.

Preston knew that an honorable man like Sir Bernard Hemmings would feel bound to take a straw poll of his own heads of section throughout the six branches of the service.