Mending in A Sentence

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    Although not invisible mending, the repair is not too obvious on a patterned seat.

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    Are you sure the church roof actually needs mending?

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    Description of school, pupils and curriculum, which included shoe mending.

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    Gum tragacanth is used in calico-printing as a thickener of colours and mordants; in medicine as a demulcent and vehicle for insoluble powders, and as an excipient in pills; and feltsetting and mending beetles and other insect specimens.

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    Her lip was still mending, but otherwise she didn't look as bad as expected.

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    If you only do some occasional mending, stick with a simple and affordable model like the Kenmore 19112.

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    In 1742 a workman named Thomas Bolsover was mending the handle of a knife made of silver and copper, when, accidentally overheating it, he caused the metals to fuse and flow, and found that as a consequence the silver adhered to the copper as a thin coating.

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    In 1840 Millet went back to Greville, where he painted "Sailors Mending a Sail" and a few other pictures - reminiscences of Cherbourg life.

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    In 1907 he took a prominent part in advocating the ending, rather than the mending, of the House of Lords; and in 1908 he was elected chairman of the party, a post which he held for two years and to which he was reelected in the autumn of 1914 when the then chairman, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, had to resign owing to his pacifist views.

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    It is employed in certain printing processes, as a cement for artificial stone and for mending glass, porcelain, &c., and also for making the so-called silicated soaps (see SoAP).

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    James gear Order Thanks to all those who helped out at gear mending on Saturday.

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    Like net mending it is an emminently social occasion with lots of people gathering around and talking.

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    Mending your dripping tap washer could save you over £ 18 a year.

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    Mrs Bennion had a lady in to sew her clothes but the maids would do some mending.

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    No fence mending or anything like that has taken place.

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    Possible privatization of road mending services cause some concern.

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    She finds Greg mending a fence which has been damaged by fly tippers.

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    Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers.

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    The bible of 1727 is a little torn and wants mending.

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    The radio dramas were usually aired in 15 minute segments each day and provided ideal "background noise" for housewives to clean house to whether they were sweeping, washing, cooking or mending.

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    The webmaster has childhood memories here of fisherman mending their nets and seeing urchins being prepared for eating.

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    There is no reason to doubt that most of the records have at least a basis of fact, for the cases are in accord with well-attested phenomena of a similar nature at the present day; but there are others, such as the miraculous mending of a broken vase, which suggest either invention or trickery.

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    These are useful for any mending that might need to be done as well as machine quilting most quilt tops.

    24

    When relationships are worth saving, hard work and perseverance go a long way toward mending the ties that once bound two lives.

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    Whether she is mending Santa's plush red coat, tending to the elves or baking treats for the reindeer, Mrs. Claus looks amazing at every turn.

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    You don't want to begin with poor materials that may later require frequent mending.