mend
verb (used with object)
to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing.
had been mending
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past perfect progressiveof mend.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Also employed there were Condé’s actual brother, Ivan — the two had been mending their strained relationship — and Condé’s eldest son, Kaíque, 18, working his first job and happily saving up for a car.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
But until then relations between the neighboring giants had been mending.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had been mending a sweater as I told him the story, but I’d had my eyes closed, because only in memory could I truly see.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
His wife had been mending it when her pains took her.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan
She picked up the sock she had been mending again.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
