Example Sentences

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Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the still unmended tenements of Madrid, before long now, a people whom victory had passed by would be shuddering.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had a horror of being found dead with mended or, worse, unmended underclothes.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

But she felt as she sat so unconcerned that there was a crack in her boot unmended, and it seemed as if everyone could see it though under the solid table.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard

In the country the old Roman roads were unmended, unkept; Europe was slipping backwards into uttermost barbarism.

From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood