1.   Holes can be mended, sleeves shortened, sweaters restyled.

2.   If they mend the hole in the net and get everyone healthy, the results should be different.

3.   You want to make cookies, put on a pot roast, mend the holes in old quilts.

4.   Marconi has been forced to make huge job cuts and sell off large chunks of the business in order to mend the hole in its balance sheet.