Example Sentences

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I found a local tailor who mends with precision and fell in love with pieces that I forgot I even had.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2025

As for Aznavorian, he hopes the U.S. mends trade relations with its allies.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024

Derrick Labrosse, a 25-year-old fisherman, mends his traps before placing them carefully in his little fishing boat on the holiday brochure shore of Anse à la Mouche.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2022

A critic breaks his hip in someone’s home and stays there, in charge, until it mends.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2019

In the story he mends his broken heart by turning it to stone.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri