mending

Parker has been mending rifts professionally for 25 years, but she insists that her skill set shouldn’t be special.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The court previously heard Dyson had been living in his car outside Wright's cottage on Sheffield Road in Hoyland, often helping him with various jobs like cutting hedges, mending tractors and driving him to appointments.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

A mending broken ankle made the four-hour wait a bit arduous, but worthwhile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

There was always something to find fault with for Shasta had plenty of work to do, mending and washing the nets, cooking the supper, and cleaning the cottage in which they both lived.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

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

On the last three days of his stay he did me the honor to leave his coat out, declaring that my mendings had made it presentable before an emperor.

From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman

The seams were white, the edges curled, the buttonholes torn in spite of many mendings; the whole presenting to the most unobservant eyes the heart-breaking stigmas of honest penury.

From The Brotherhood of Consolation by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Had she not clothes enough to last her with patient mendings and persistent remakings for two years?

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various

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