mending

Harry has talked in the past about mending fences with his father and how he wants his two children, 7-year-old Archie and 5-year-old Lilibet, to know Britain better.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

"You don't get many people mending raw cashmere," said Wade, whose role is to meticulously inspect and darn any defects in the fabric by hand, before it is washed, cut and shipped around the world.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

With the Canada-US trade relationship increasingly unpredictable, Canada is seeking to bolster ties elsewhere, in some cases mending strained ties.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

On Monday, as the officials confirmed Machado’s visit, there were fresh signs that the U.S. and the Venezuelan regime were moving toward mending their long-strained relations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

I started to point out that her knee was still mending and that she’d need me for at least another week.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

Rhyme, now: he had called it often enough a jingle of endings; it were more true to say that it was a jingle of mendings, for it certainly soothed him.

From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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

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

The tire was already somewhat of a patched affair, bearing evidences of former punctures and mendings.

From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith