mend
verb (used with object)
to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing.
was mending
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past progressiveof mend.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At the time he was hired, though, his most pressing task was mending campus relationships by showing schools that the league office cared about their various plights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
Shareholders said bank officials falsely claimed in TV interviews, analyst calls and congressional testimony that the bank was mending its ways, when regulators actually viewed its progress as “deficient” and “unacceptable.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
“I think she’s not coming back,” said Jozica Trstenjak, a designer who was mending dresses in the atelier portion of Singer Atelier & Caffe, which Ms. Trump frequented when it was called Bar Clementino.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2016
As a child growing up near the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios he became fascinated at an early age about what went on inside and by his teens he was mending old tellies at school.
From BBC ● May 18, 2015
Johnny saw that he was mending the silver hilt of a British officer’s sword.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
