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Example sentences for "mends"

Lexicographically close words:
mendicant; mendicants; mendicity; mending; mendis; mene; mener; menester; meneth; menfolk
  1. Schlorge mends them one day, and she breaks them the next, and so we usually have plenty.

  2. Under the gright Gugollaph-tree The Dimplesmithy stands; The smith is harder than the sea And softer than the lands; He mends cheek-dimples frank and free, But will not work on hands.

  3. My shin mends in spite of the scratching last night.

  4. Lord Treasurer mends every day, though slowly: I hope he will take care of himself.

  5. So I took my leave of him, and called at Sir Andrew Fountaine's, who mends much.

  6. I have long lost all my colds, and the weather mends a little.

  7. The Queen mends apace, they say; but yet talks idle still.

  8. The Queen mends apace, but her head still light.

  9. Mindful of promis'd aid, he mends his pace, But meets Aeneas in the middle space.

  10. His foes in sight, he mends his weary pace; With shout and clamors they pursue the chase.

  11. As to myself, my health is good, except my wrist which mends slowly, and my mind which mends not at all, but broods constantly over your departure.

  12. She starts within me, like a traveller, Who sluggishly outslept his morning hour, And mends his pace to reach his inn betimes.

  13. Cast eyes on him; a goodly husband mends all; cast eyes on him!

  14. Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.

  15. Defn: One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.

  16. Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows.

  17. Though it appears formed with the nicest Wisdom, upon the most superficial Survey of it, it still mends upon the Search, and produces our Surprize and Amazement in proportion as we pry into it.

  18. I think Lady Derby mends in appearance; the Duke and I go often to her.

  19. Nature mends ordinary nerve waste each day, like the rains replenish the cistern.

  20. The Relapse mends the Contrivance of the Satir, refines upon the Manner, and to make the Discourse the more probable, obliges the Ladies to abuse themselves.

  21. But then the Poet qualifies him for his good Fortune, and mends his Manners with his Circumstances.

  22. Whatever is new is unlooked for, and ever it mends some and impairs others; and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and he that is hurt for a wrong.

  23. Marriage, indeed, may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

  24. He who mends his things in time, is spared half the work and all the disgrace.

  25. The landscape was only half revealed by the summer night, but it was all as familiar as the mends in the back of Father Lasse's waistcoat, although he had never been here before.

  26. It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

  27. If a girl mends her clothes on her back, she risks having a drunken husband.

  28. The Lokuruwa mends all brass and copper-vessels of a temple, and generally takes part in the service of the other smiths.

  29. He is a tenant generally of the smith caste, and mends and keeps in repair the image and paintings of temples.


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