Recent Examples on the WebHarris also appears to have sewn up Biden’s polling gap with former President Donald Trump, trailing the Republican nominee by only 1 point in the New York Times’ polling average late Thursday.—Christina Wilkie, CNBC, 26 July 2024 Some more history: incumbent Gerald Ford did not sew up the GOP nomination against a challenge by Ronald Reagan in 1976 until the delegates actually voted at their August convention.—Jerry Goldfeder, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024 The Democrats’ surprisingly strong showing in those elections seemed to sew up the question of whether Biden would run again.—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024 The goal of a transparent export landscape is not to ensure that U.S. firms sew up every infrastructure project that comes along.—Fred P. Hochberg, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015 See all Example Sentences for sew up
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