- present participle of mend.
mending
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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
There’s a tension in his art, between fracture and mending, destruction and creation, that holds out a promise of rebirth and lends humble forms outsize power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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
The fairies busily healed one another, mending wings and closing wounds.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
The approach was like a turnpike road full of great ruts, clumsy mendings; bordered by trampled edges and incursions upon the grass at pleasure.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
The awful strain on the old rotten harness when Cherub pulled and the vehicle was held up, caused the frayed rope mendings to part and the eager horse hurried forward, leaving his unwelcome drag behind.
From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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
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
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
