mending
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How to use mending in a sentence
So, he decided to give the church a chance, if not just for the sake of mending his relationship with his mother.
For years, Schmidt lived in poverty, eating beans and mending his clothes with flour sacks.
London may as well also require that cabbies master the art of saddling a horse and mending a harness.
It is coming together now, mending, he sees it in paragraphs, is almost afraid to sleep for losing the connections.
Pete Dexter’s Indelible Portrait of Author Norman Maclean | Pete Dexter | March 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne recent survey showed a clear majority believed that neither party was capable of mending “Broken Britain.”
Some mending of the text is absolutely necessary, because shette is altogether a false form; the pp.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerThose that I now saw were yoked in twos or threes to large waggons, full of stones for mending the roads.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferSometime, she reflected, she would be mending worn garments for another man, now far away.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartAfter that home and to bed, reading myself asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysShe goes to market with her father's cook, makes delicious pickles and preserves, and hasn't her equal in mending and darning.'
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence | Eugne Sue
British Dictionary definitions for mending
/ (ˈmɛndɪŋ) /
something to be mended, esp clothes
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