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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On the last three days of his stay he did me the honor to leave his coat out, declaring that my mendings had made it presentable before an emperor.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
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
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
Fence and equipment mendings, cutting ice from ponds and rivers, chopping wood, and grubbing up trees all had a part in his busy life.
From Frying Pan Farm by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Their pieces of clothing appear like new mendings on old rags, or like a substantial shawl thrown over scanty vestments.
From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
