Sentence examples for I tend when from inspiring English sources

I tend, when feeling poor, to want to live as if — as Elizabeth Gaskell put it in her novel "Cranford" (1851) — "economy was always 'elegant,' and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious.' " To behave like a duck, that is: dignified on the surface while pedaling away madly down below.

I tend to cross when I get into those situations, which I did when Frank [Lampard] played a great ball to me in the first half when I should have shot.

What do they know, anyway? is what I tend to think when someone offers me a ray of mental sunshine like this when I'm intent on feeling awful.

I tend to eat when I'm under stress.

I tend to cry when I get shocked.

I tend to browse when I go past.

I read haphazardly this year, as I tend to do when I'm writing a lot of poetry.

"I tend to play when I know there are lots of prizes on the go," he said.

I tend to smoke when I don't have this [e-cigarette], but if I wanted to give up, I could easily.

By Dan Chiasson December 29, 2011 I read haphazardly this year, as I tend to do when I'm writing a lot of poetry.

I was on the floor stretching, which is what I tend to do when I'm not quite sure what to do.