Sentence examples for tend like from inspiring English sources

In experimental conditions gibberellins tend, like auxins, to retard senescence.

The people she hires tend, like the patrons, to stick around.

With everyone exhausted and attention flagging, you tend, like Rodney Dangerfield, to get no respect.

They tend, like him, to be fiscal conservatives who don't concentrate on more divisive issues, and he shied away from the controversial, Tea Party candidates".

Even in their own field they tend, like painters, to work within traditions set by great masters rather than to think everything out from scratch for themselves.

A preoccupation with the loveliness of things that melt away even at the moment of possession can tend, like all ripe emotions, to cloy when expressed too directly.

A little bit like they tend to like their local sports team.

Bancroft's managers tend to like bond-flavored convertibles, like the New Zealand Telecom.

And dancers have tended, like Blunden, to resist the beckoning world of New York dance.

Lately, our horror stories have tended, like our cable news shows, toward a despairing and nihilistic pseudo-realism.

Soldiers wrote of being "tended like flowers", of "never being so happy" and called the hospital "a fairyland".