Sentence examples for tend as from inspiring English sources

Historical statistics show investment spending by private business to have been the most volatile of the major components of national income; changes in investment, therefore, tend (as in the example above) to be the focus of concern for one school of economists.

The concentrations of Ba and Cr have the same tend, as do As and Pb.

Each report included tstart and tend as well as details of the investigating officer's efforts to identify the offender.

Likewise, in perceiving our beloved's actions and character, we do so through the lens of such an appreciation, which will tend as to "silence" interpretations inconsistent with that appreciation.

They tend, as people do, to stonewall and deny.

Or to consider, reluctantly, the possibility that pop stars tend, as a breed, towards the halfwitted and greedy.

Many of these tents are tended as carefully as summer homes.

This was a busy mission in the old days — as many as 1,200 neophytes at one time, tending as many as 8,000 head of cattle and 10,000 sheep.

The British public tends, as a rule, to dislike toffs.

Either way, the body tends, as a result, to give up making them.

Though neither Frankel nor Lelyveld could be described as easygoing, both men tended, as executive editor, to underplay the part.