Definition: 1. Sewing or darning that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment). 2. The act of putting something in working order again. 3. Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken. 4. Heal or recover.
Use 'mend' in a sentence:
1. Somebody helped me mend the puncture.
2. The youths are taught how to spray paint cars and mend fences.
3. The woman asked if he could perhaps mend her fences, and so he stayed.
4. She called a few friends to apologize and mend her fences for past things.
5. He sent Evans as his personal envoy to discuss ways to mend relations between the two countries.
6. He shouldn't try to mend the unmendable.
7. They requested sappers to mend bridges or remove mines.
8. I left my watch to be mended last week, is it ready?
9. Somebody else lent me a pump and helped me mend the puncture.
10. I'm very glad to hear that you're on the mend.
11. I'll get round to mending it eventually.
12. The baby had been poorly but seemed on the mend.
13. She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.
14. None of this is likely to be on hand if you cannot even afford to mend the dismally few highways you have.
15. More evidence that the economy was on the mend was needed.
16. My mother used to mend my shoes when I was young.
17. They started to mend the woodwork and paint the walls.
18. Mend them and wear them longer.
19. The patient is on the mend.
20. He's on the mend.
21. Talking won't mend matters.
22. At last he was pronounced upon the mend—and then convalescent.
23. I felt that might well mend the rift between them.
24. The shoes need mending.
25. The mend in your dress scarcely shows.
26. Dad can mend any broken toy.
27. Somebody helped me to mend the puncture.
28. Washington was last night doing its best to mend fences with the Europeans, saying it understood their concerns.
29. He can mend your little house and stop the rattling.
30. It is never too late to mend.
31. If only Peter knew how to mend it!
32. They tried to mend their differences.
33. I should have had the catch mended, but never got round to it.
34. The baby had been ill but seemed to be on the mend.
35. He has promised drastic disciplinary action if they do not mend their ways.
36. Can you mend this table? I broke it yesterday.
37. They took a long time to mend the roof.
38. I think we must start to mend again, before the fall wind comes.
39. Could you mend my bike for me?
40. We can help mend brains and minds by removing or reducing stress.
41. He must have a major operation on his knee to mend severed ligaments.
42. You'll mend. The X-rays show that your arm will heal all right.
43. I'm feeling a good bit better. The cut aches, but it's mending.
44. Does he believe the economy's really on the mend?
45. Who will then do the cooking, the washing, the mending?
46. He's mending slowly after the operation.
47. My leg is definitely on the mend now.
48. The two countries fought a border war a decade ago, but now they are mending fences.
