Sentence examples for first tend from inspiring English sources

African critics, who knew and championed Anatsui's work first, tend to emphasize its continuity.

And the programs that lose out first tend to be new ones.

The larvae of the Atlantic herring at first tend to make short, upward movements from the spawning beds on the bottom and then sink back again.

Husbands, who often hesitate at first, tend to wrest control, turning candy canes into lampposts or sleighs and building extensions with graham crackers.

By analyzing an existing data set of recordings of infant babbling, they found that as babies introduce a new syllable into their repertory, they first tend to repeat it ("do-do-do").

The first tend to do well, and benefit from globalisation; the second group feel left out.

"The cable companies that were there first tended to benefit".

More rapid monetary growth at first tends to lower interest rates.

The first tends to be simple with handsomely detailed elements that bear little ornamentation.

This happens, Gore says, because the initial colonization of the gut is a rare event, so whichever microbe makes it there first tends to dominate the entire population.

The order in which the monkeys were introduced strongly predicted their dominance rank: The one introduced first tends to become the alpha, the one introduced second tends to become the beta, and so on.