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

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

Inviting us to sit down with a show about mental health professionals mending their spirits is group therapy on a massive scale in a time of diagnosable disorder.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

Cora hadn’t picked up a needle apart from simple mending since Mabel left.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

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

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

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

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