Antonym: break. Similar words: amendment, amend, recommend, tremendous, mendacious, recommendation, commencement, end. Meaning: [mend] n. 1. sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) 2. the act of putting something in working order again. v. 1. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken 2. heal or recover.
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91. If the cooling system sprang a leak pilots had to land and mend the pipe with chewing gum and insulation tape.
92. We had to wash our own hair and mend our own clothes.
93. The Communist Party committees tried to 're-educate' him but he refused to mend his ways.
94. So I suggested that we should try to mend things by letting the house and all move to London.
95. Robby Thompson, on the mend from shoulder and back injuries last season, continued to have a tremendous spring.
96. And questions: to forgive, to try to mend the marriage, or to end it?
97. The only thing she could do now was find Ana and mend a few fences.
98. He knew how to change the washer on a tap, and make pastry, and mend a bicycle puncture.
99. Increased sales are a sign that the housing market is on the mend.
100. If I had some weight near to the crust I could mend the line without pulling it off course.
101. The very best product to smooth the cuticle and help mend the split ends is Pure Gloss.
102. It can cope with a cold, fight off a serious illness and with time, even mend a broken bone.
103. I called a service engineer in to mend the lift.
104. As a result of this report the caretaker was informed that if he did not mend his ways he would be discharged.
105. Once he was on the mend, we decided to try and do something about his crooked leg.
106. There's no point in trying to mend it, it's completely bust.
107. If he doesn't mend his ways he'll be in jail by the time he's eighteen.
108. Yet the latest appointment is still a matter of make do and mend.
109. A pin was inserted to mend the fracture in his foot.
110. And he was very keen on Sara Calvert while he was on the mend.
111. They are still unrepresented in great cities such as Manchester and Liverpool,[http://sentencedict.com/mend.html] but they seem at last to be on the mend.
112. She did not throw clothes away if she could mend them or alter them to make them more fashionable.
113. This makes it less likely that investors would encourage a dissolute borrower to mend its ways by withholding finance.
114. It took a good five years for the rift within the party to mend.
115. With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator's flank.
116. More uniform arrangements will allow good schools to flourish, they say, while forcing bad ones to mend their ways.
117. It costs five shillings and sixpence to go round, and you need an awful lot of those to mend two acres of roof.
118. I was trying to mend a broken door in the floor of the stage.
119. We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar.
120. He left jobs half-done, or took short cuts which Trondur had to mend.