the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.
adj. 形容词 adjective
of, relating to, or promoting fence-mending.
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So, he decided to give the church a chance, if not just for the sake of mending his relationship with his mother.
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
For years, Schmidt lived in poverty, eating beans and mending his clothes with flour sacks.
I have the unique advantage of seeing this from both sides of the fence.
At this point, he became Tom Sawyer, letting his musical compatriots—and the folk tradition—help paint his musical fence.
I saw every crook in the fence, every rut in the road, every bush and tree long before we came to it.
Another fence: who would furnish that two hundred and fifty dollars and secure him for the remainder?
They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.
I raised my pipe above my head and hurled it against the fence, where it crashed into a score of pieces.
In 1837 the churchyard had some pleasant walks along the sides, bounded by a low wooden fence, and skirted with trees.