Sentence examples for he's mending from inspiring English sources

To illustrate his point, he does something with his hands, something meticulous, as though he's mending a particularly delicate wristwatch.

She got married at 12, having met her husband while he was mending a pump at her school.

But I was quite sure he was mending well and soon would be as sane as you or I".

I assumed he was mending the bones of children, but in fact he was working in politics, goading Brazil toward modernity.

On the first day of April, one of the headlines read, "MANDELA OO SOO KABANAYAA," meaning that he was "mending," as if he had broken a bone and would be getting better.

They said it was no accident that he was teaching at Columbia University in New York, which puts him in proximity to major fund-raisers, or that he was mending political fences in his home state, Tennessee (which he lost last year), by teaching at Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University.

As a child growing up near the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios he became fascinated at an early age about what went on inside and by his teens he was mending old tellies at school.

He got home and they were mending the windows".

He'd be in charge of a latrine-spraying detail one week, the next he'd be mending rips in tents, and then again, he be in charge of men rounding up goats.

To the suggestion that he should be mending his fences with Arab leaders in the region, Mr. Chalabi bristled and said, "They should mend their ways".

The next contribution comes from Shaw, another Lion yet to play after his summer in South Africa, although his foot is mending and he's on the Wasps bench to face Leeds this Sunday.