mending
noun
the act of a person or thing that mends.
mendings
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pluralof mending.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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All my makings and mendings and turnings are done at home by a clever little workwoman, under my own superintendance, and I am most careful and economical.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black
The seams were white, the edges curled, the buttonholes torn in spite of many mendings; the whole presenting to the most unobservant eyes the heart-breaking stigmas of honest penury.
From The Brotherhood of Consolation by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Had she not clothes enough to last her with patient mendings and persistent remakings for two years?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various
The awful strain on the old rotten harness when Cherub pulled and the vehicle was held up, caused the frayed rope mendings to part and the eager horse hurried forward, leaving his unwelcome drag behind.
From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
For what are coarse material mendings to the æsthetic soul yearning after the infinite, and worshipping at the feet of the prophet?
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
