Sentence examples for tends to close from inspiring English sources

When Jean's depression sets in, she tends to close herself off from people.

Therefore, the residual resistance of the damaged zone is represented by cohesive stresses, which tends to close the crack faces.

When Thomson talks, he tends to close his eyes, as if he needs to concentrate on what he's saying.

But, as the Dutch psychologist Carsten de Dreu has shown, time pressure tends to close minds, not open them.

A launch is a window of opportunity that tends to close rather than open as the weeks pass.

"Once you excavate the hole, it tends to close up, because the mountain is pressing on it," Matthias Neuenschwander, the former resident engineer of the southern section of the tunnel, told me.

They're run by energy companies but tend to close in late November early December.

WHEN external crisis strikes Israel, its politicians tend to close ranks.

HEDGE FUNDS tend to close by choice; outright collapses are less common.

Whenever there was a scandal they tended to close ranks at the expense of the nation.

Health departments tended to close clinics or cut services, whereas private organizations recruited insured populations and increased patient fees.