Sentence examples for tends to roll from inspiring English sources

This intervention permits the influence of the spontaneous activity generated in the remaining statocyst to be felt, and the animal tends to roll toward the operated side.

As comptroller, Mr. Hynes has trained his attention on the public and nonprofit agencies that rely on state money; he tends to roll his eyes at the notion that slashing alone is a solution.

His walk — which eats ground, to be sure — is eccentrically animated: he keeps his upper body stiff and backward-leaning, but it tends to roll, sailor fashion, and as he swings his arms and bends his legs the effect is of an almost fluid lurch, as if he were forever taking his first step off an escalator.

But Ms. Figueroa-Levin's Spanish is good enough to notice — as many have — that when Mr. Bloomberg speaks Spanish, it sounds as if he is engaged in a wrestling match with his own tongue, which tends to roll when it should rattle against the roof of his mouth.

The loaf, which tends to roll around in the roasting pan, and never browns quite as appetizingly as poultry, is nonetheless a bit turkey-like in its trusty stodginess: it's the thing that's on the holiday table because it's supposed to be there.

Otherwise the carbon nanotube tends to roll to lower the barrier.

Things tend to roll off their back.

Like most nonbankers, I've tended to roll my eyes at Dimon's continuous lamentations.

The front wheels tend to roll under a bit during really hard cornering.

(Chickpeas tend to roll off en route from plate to mouth).

When I mention the Heimatfilme to Germans here, they tend to roll their eyes.