MEND in a Sentence

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90 example sentences for MEND, such as:

1. It is never too late to mend.
2. The least said, the soonest mended.
3. Somebody helped me mend the puncture.
4. It'll cost you to have your roof mended.
5. There, I can't see anything more to mend now.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mend
 v.  make repairs or restoration to; fix; improve
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  "Don't fret; I'll come down and mend it in the night," he said.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  And it's too much to hope that you'll mend your ways at this late date.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  What is broken is broken--and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
4  Bildad, thou used to be good at sharpening a lance, mend that pen, will ye.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5  But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
6  And look ye, let the carpenter make another log, and mend thou the line.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
7  Because he was always first in his classes at school, and could mend the water-pipes or the doorbell and take the clock to pieces, she seemed to think him a sort of prince.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
8  His father used to mend her shoes for her when she was a student.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
9  He'll get wus nor oneasy, one of these days, if he don't mend his ways.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  I toed off these yer stockings last night, and put de ball in 'em to mend with.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  Amy stirred and sighed in her sleep, and as if eager to begin at once to mend her fault, Jo looked up with an expression on her face which it had never worn before.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
12  "My old white one again, if I can mend it fit to be seen, it got sadly torn last night," said Meg, trying to speak quite easily, but feeling very uncomfortable.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
13  She does her own hair, and I am teaching her to make buttonholes and mend her stockings.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
14  I laughed all the way downstairs, but it was a little pathetic, also to think of the poor man having to mend his own clothes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
15  There, I can't see anything more to mend now.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  It is never too late to mend.
2  Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them.
3  He sent Evans as his personal envoy to discuss ways to mend relations between the two countries.
4  You'd better mend that hole before the whole sweater starts to unravel.
5  He must have a major operation on his knee to mend severed ligaments.
6  I had a tinker at your radio, but I can't mend it.
7  Somebody helped me mend the puncture.
8  I find your behavior obnoxious; please mend your ways.
9  He was constantly being warned to mend his improvident ways and begin to "save for a rainy day.".
10  In his youth he led a life of lechery and debauchery; he did not mend his ways until middle age.
11  It took Libyan authorities almost three decades to mend relations with the west.
12  He is mending the wire mesh in front of the chicken coop.
13  It'll cost you to have your roof mended.
14  The workmen dug a hole, mended the pipe, and then filled the hole in again.
15  The least said, the soonest mended.