Sentence examples for mender from inspiring English sources
First makers, now menders The "take, make, dispose" economy, based on digging up ever-scarcer resources to make cheap, short-lived products, only to swiftly consign them to landfill once they break, is facing a backlash from a collection of activist "mender" groupsPedestrian observationsWalking has long rewarded contemplation.
Bottom together with Peter Quince, carpenter; Francis Flute, bellows mender; Tom Snout, tinker; Snug, joiner; and Robin Starveling, tailor initiates a series of low-comedy antics that contrast with the machinations of the aristocratic lovers.
Their duties included those of village watchman, messenger, wall mender, adjudicator of boundary disputes, street sweeper, and remover of carcasses.
If her father was a destroyer, her mother was a mender.
Old black men with sugarcane stalks, children selling stolen flowers, and the pot mender would pass by.
I tarried in the book section, impressed that there was so much to do besides write: book canvasser, cleaner, coverer, cutter, finisher, jogger, mender, packer, and sewer.
In his last term as prime minister, Mr. Abe was considered a fence-mender, making Beijing his first official stop after taking office in an effort to end hard feelings over the previous prime minister's visits to a shrine where war criminals from World War II are honored.
And he said he would appoint an "envoy to the Americas" - a sort of post-Bush fence-mender in chief - and seek to draw a line under the diplomatic negligence that helped Hugo Chávez to flourish and allowed Beijing and Tehran to gain footholds in America's backyard.
"Boulatruelle, the road-mender we have already met.
On his journey, he meets others – the cobbler, the midwife, the net-mender, the elderly maths teacher, the duke, the town-chronicler and his wife – who have also lost their children and who are also lost in grief.
By James Kirkup The New Yorker, October 9, 1978 P. 161 In the back lane, the net-mender with his shuttle, View Article By John Cassidy By Lidija Haas By Anthony Lane By Atul Gawande.
