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Example sentences for "mended"

Lexicographically close words:
mendacio; mendacious; mendacity; mendacium; mendax; mender; menders; mendicancy; mendicant; mendicants
  1. I was thinking of--of--the day when I mended your coat!

  2. The torn cloth had been mended in the neatest manner; so neatly, indeed, that the orifice was almost invisible.

  3. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

  4. She mended his clothes, and made fancy dishes for him, she knit him everything that could be knitted, including an aviator's helmet for which he had no possible use.

  5. By midnight all the rents were mended and a large new patch adorned each elbow.

  6. She feared to tell her father, who would be sure to punish her, and was in despair how to get the ring mended when she caught sight of the island on which Wayland's tower stood.

  7. It must be very old; it is very carefully mended too.

  8. Evening was the only time she had to herself, and while the tired feet rested the skilful hands mended torn frocks and little stockings, or anxious heart forgot its burden in a book.

  9. The Princesses mended their clothes every day, and after the King had gone to bed Madame Elisabeth mended his.

  10. She had the back porch mended and the loose board in the front walk replaced.

  11. She hurried to their room and mended all her own clothing she had laid out.

  12. He had dug his own well, built his own shanty, washed and mended his own clothing.

  13. If there is the slightest need, lace should be mended before it is washed.

  14. The thing is mended as soon as told," I cried, and, calling the host, I bade him bring three bottles.

  15. That can be mended by leaving it, madame.

  16. But, by way of recreation, after the supper dishes had been washed up, Gertie darned socks, mended shirts, patched trousers for the men folk or sewed on some garment for herself.

  17. I've cooked for you, mended your clothes, and I've kept the shack clean.

  18. The others make me smile with their mended legs and their vanished sores.

  19. The windows were small; and, as many of the panes were broken, the holes were mended with pieces of dirty paper, or stopped up with old rags.

  20. Here—help me to put on my gown—it's mended now.

  21. The reverse is mended with a piece of bark.

  22. At four metres below the surface the shaft had been cut through one of the pit tombs[41] of the cemetery, and the hole in the side thus caused had been mended with mud bricks.

  23. All I objected to was the hunt's breaking down the mended bank.

  24. I have been to see the mended dyke," she said, and he knew that she had pluck.

  25. Here his skill in polemics was called into requisition, in an encounter with two New England Antinomians, and a certain Anabaptist tailor who was making more rents in the garrison's orthodoxy than he mended in their doublets and breeches.

  26. But he will be no he-angel, if you cross him just before meal time, or don't see that his clothes are mended up good.

  27. But one day she mended a hole in his pocket, and bein' on-used to mendin' she took a wrong turn, and sewed the pocket right up.

  28. If the morals of Shire-lane have mended thereby, we must not repine.

  29. Tip came down from the garret, with neatly-brushed hair, and dressed in his clean shirt, nicely mended jacket, and the shiny collar.

  30. My spirits were not mended upon returning home.

  31. But Chaucer has refined on Boccace, and has mended the stories which he has borrowed in his way of telling, though prose allows more liberty of thought, and the expression is more easy when unconfined by numbers.

  32. Now, wherein we want desert were a thank-worthy labour to express: but if I knew, I should have mended myself.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.