How do you use the word "stitch" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "stitch": "A stitch in time saves nine" is a proverb. You'll learn in time that a stitch in time saves nine.

Stitch Meaning

/stɪt͡ʃ/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

nounA single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made., A single pass of a surgical suture (to sew the edges of a wound together)

Sentence Examples

"A stitch in time saves nine" is a proverb.

You'll learn in time that a stitch in time saves nine.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The doctor needed to ____ the wound with a needle and thread.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The tailor added a final ____ to the seam of the coat to make sure it wouldn't come apart easily.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English stiche, from Old English stiċe (“a prick, puncture, stab, thrust with a pointed implement, pricking sensation, stitch, pain in the side, sting”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiki, from Proto-Germanic *stikiz (“prick, piercing, stitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stab, pierce”). Cognate with Dutch steek (“prick, stitch”), German Stich (“a prick, piercing, stitch”), Old English stician (“to stick, stab, pierce, prick”). More at stick. Via PIE cognate with Czech steh, Polish ścieg, Russian стежо́к (stežók).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He was the next day taken with an oppreſſion, and as it ſeemed with a cold and with ſtitches, which was indeed a pluriſy." — a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book III. Of the Rest of King Charles II’s Reign, from the Year 1673 to the Year 1685, in which He Died.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, page 588:

"A sharp stitch in the left side of the head, on sitting down […] A sharp stitch in the upper part of the right side of the head, […]" — 1878, Timothy Field Allen, The Encyclopedia of pure materia medica v. 8, 1878, page 291:

"[Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down." — 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 148:

"About DUNSTABLE they plow much in Stitches : and in Essex some very good Farmers practise this Method with very great Success; making five Stitches when they come to sow, which five make a Perch, so that between every two Stitches there is a Thorough a Foot wide." — 1757, Thomas Hale, “Of Tillage”, in A compleat body of husbandry, page 241:

""Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]" — 1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 237:

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