mending

How To Use mending In A Sentence

• Last month, Najib said the government would establish a bi- partisan parliamentary committee to review changes to electoral rules, and that authorities would also consider amending laws governing censorship of print media. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
• I went to my room and calmed myself with some invisible mending.
• Care should be exercised in wording the sections providing for amending the constitution, etc., to avoid such tautology as ”amend, or add to, or repeal, ” or ”alter or amend, ” or ”amend or in any way change. 11. Miscellaneous. 68. Amendments of Constitutions, By-laws, and Rules of Order
• If no amending legislation is enacted within 180 days, the Clinton administration is free to proceed as planned, Riggs said.
• He comes down from mending the roof of his barn for this interview. Times, Sunday Times
• The jury added a rider to their verdict recommending mercy.
• That lady, having discovered that her guest's gloves needed mending, was working over them with pieces of Indian-tanned buckskin and beeswaxed thread, the picture of domestic content. The Ranch at the Wolverine
• Using three works - two entitied Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River and Mending the Net - they found underdrawings in graphite directly related to existing photographs.
• As a single woman and dating coach with a closetful of red dresses, I have been recommending that women wear red on their first dates with men for many years. Julie Spira: Why Wearing Red on a First Date Attracts Men
• At sea, the sailors are continually engaged in "parcelling," "serving," and in a thousand ways ornamenting and repairing the numberless shrouds and stays; mending sails, or turning one side of the deck into a rope-walk, where they manufacture a clumsy sort of twine, called spun-yarn. Redburn. His First Voyage