Sentence examples for tends for from inspiring English sources

But life, including its vexations, tends for most of us to be built on the small stuff.

He tends for good and idealistic reasons to play down another problem: International sport is organized by nation-states, so proposed reforms become an exercise in international diplomacy.

It tends, for instance, to see all foreigners as spies.The new rulers in Tripoli also seem prone to the old ways.

(Plus ça change...) An orphaned young woman loses her job at a garment factory and agrees to marry the nightwatchman whose paralytic father she already tends for a few dollars a week.

Perhaps "Kontroll" is best described as an example of American rhythm and pace wedded to a European sensibility — a temperament that tends, for all its dynamism, toward the forlorn, the sardonic, the contemplative.

It is proved that the distribution of particles tends for large time to the fundamental solution of the linear operator inL1norm, which means that the effect of the interaction potential vanishes comparatively att→∞.

Fields carefully tended for centuries are left uncultivated and overgrown.

Mr. Cauer immediately recognized the instrument, which he has tended for 20 years.

The several dozen cats have been tended for years by sympathetic airport employees.

(Each major glaciation tended, for obvious reasons, to destroy the evidence of its predecessors).

The very words tend, for the contemporary reader, to mitigate the affirmation of Foley's homophobia.