How to Use tend in a Sentence

tend

verb
  • When the financial market is down, the price of gold tends to rise.
    Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • What’s more, the wind guards also tend to slip out of the inserts when bumped or moved around.
    Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • In the sports world, in the business world, in the Mountain Brook world, a lot of people tend to act like the smartest person in the room.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Over the afternoons, the tent also tends to people passed out from the heat.
    Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Couples, for the most part, tend to stay faithful for life, which can add at least three years on to life.
    Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The Texas properties, on the other hand, tend to be more affordable in the height of the summer.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Deer mice tend to be bigger than house mice and have white bellies and brown or tan backs.
    Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • For decades, the face of that product in Delaware tended to be old, white and male.
    Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024
  • When her husband moved to Delhi to work as a plumber, she was left alone to tend the couple’s fields.
    Uzmi Athar, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Most mattresses sold on Amazon tend to be on the cheaper side, which is the main draw.
    Martin Cizmar, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Selections with lighter leaves tend to last the longest.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Utah Tech and Utah Valley students, meanwhile, tended to have the lowest salaries of the bunch.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The oil can also tend to split ends: apply it to the ends of the hair, wear a processing cap for 10 minutes, then rinse it out.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But Take Note This pick tends to run small, so if your kiddo is between sizes, order the size up.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Convenience, though, tends to be a hollow virtue on its own.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Younger women tend to have denser breasts, which can result in more biopsies.
    Christina Ruffini, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Listeria’s worst tends to strike people over the age of 65, under the age of 5 and pregnant women.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • With both teams out of the playoff mix, midweek games in September — after the start of the school year — tend to lose their luster.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Keep in Mind Custom items tend to have long production times.
    Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2023
  • Kitchens tended to just sort of be like a big room with a bunch of freestanding furniture just sort of plopped in it.
    Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The high season is from January through April, when the weather is at its best but prices tend to be at their highest.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2023
  • Mixing the pellets into the soil of the wool pot will result in thriving plants that require less tending to.
    Ebony Roberts, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Mary tends to keep a low profile compared to her older brother.
    Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But the truth, in each case, has tended to look more like erosion than revolution.
    Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Shipping tends to be a lot more difficult and expensive when the seas are teeming with mines.
    John Gustavsson, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Prospective postdocs also tend to be younger and are less likely to be Black or female.
    Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
  • Just a quick note: The prices tend to fluctuate depending on the size, color, and specific style.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 12 July 2023
  • Just a quick note: The prices tend to fluctuate depending on the size, color, and specific style, so go in with an open mind.
    Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Dillon saw bystanders tending to Glenn Jordan, who worked at an eyeglass store a few suites down, and who appeared to be on the ground in pain.
    The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2024
  • And women leaders tend to be younger than their male counterparts.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023

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