mending

Example Sentences

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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

But the Mandelson mess makes mending what's been done that much harder.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

Then there was Mend Piece: “While you mend | think of mending the world.”

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025

Obsessed with mending his relationship with his daughters, Clooney's character drags his manager, played by Adam Sandler, and press agent, played by Laura Dern, on a trip to Europe.

From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025

She looked very happy, and she laid down her mending for a minute.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder