mend
verb (used with object)
to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing.
were 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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Sogavare and Albanese embraced when they met at a Pacific Islands Forum summit in July in Fiji, in a sign that bilateral relations were mending after Australia’s nine years of conservative rule.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
I rowed up opposite the fisherman’s island where there were boats drawn up and men were mending nets.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Smith gave a long whistle, and his fingers twitched as if he were mending a sewing machine, and after a few more words he left.
From Friends I Have Made by George Manville Fenn
Some of them were mending their clothes, others were reading newspapers they had brought with them, but the greater part of them were in squads engaged in talking about the events of the war.
From Stand By The Union by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
Having threaded one of the needles he began now, in as matter-of-course a manner as though he were mending a shirt, to stitch up the whole great wound so as to draw its sides together.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton
