mender

Example Sentences

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"It's a dying trade," 61-year-old Maria Wade said of her job as a "greasy mender" at Alex Begg, a semi-rural mill that has been based in Ayr in southwest Scotland for more than a century.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Regardless of who else joins what is expected to be a crowded field, Klobuchar will likely run as a fence mender, not a firebrand.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2019

If Spiegelman seems especially charitable toward women who may have more self-serving reasons to shade history, this generosity is typical of her, the appointed mender of the frayed matrilineal thread.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2016

A series of photographs taken in Torquay around 1900 present people such as a chair mender and a crab salesman.

From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2015

“I am old. The doll mender confirmed this. He said as he was mending me that I am at least that. At least one hundred. At least one hundred years old.”

From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo