mending
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A mending broken ankle made the four-hour wait a bit arduous, but worthwhile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The company has made some progress mending relationships with retailers in the U.S., where sales have improved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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
At the ranch house, he found his mother sitting on the porch, mending socks.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
They had worn through the various mendings the pocket had sustained and sought their liberty in the sands of Carolina.
From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Edward Samuel Corwin
At two she made a little toilette for dinner, and was employed on numberless household darnings and mendings in the long evenings while her sisters giggled over the jingling piano.
From Boys and girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Evidently the system of upkeep in vogue was the system employed in the case of Trishkin's coat—the system of cutting up the cuffs and the collar into mendings for the elbows.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
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
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
