Sentence examples for would rather tend from inspiring English sources
Though Pomona is technically open to the public Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings by appointment, I got the feeling that Mr. Belloni would rather tend to his orchards than entertain tourists.
He likened the situation in Russia to the Wild West, where ranchers must band together to hunt down cattle thieves, even if they would rather tend their herds in peace.
He said that younger members felt that Mr. Abu Bakr was no longer the firebrand he once was and that he would rather tend to his family and business interests.
We believe it is unlikely that patients would over-report sexual risk behaviors in either clinical context (tending to decrease the specificity of the screening question) but would rather tend to under-report risk behaviors in both settings (tending to decrease sensitivity of the screening question).
It is possible that some women using charcoal during most of the duration of pregnancy might have reported use of LPG as their primary fuel, but this information bias would rather tend to underestimate the true effect.
While this might contribute to the inhibitory effect of indole on cells treated with 1 mM glucose, it cannot account for the suppression by indole of GLP-1 secretion at high extracellular K+ concentrations, because under these conditions a larger K+ current would rather tend to promote K+-dependent membrane depolarization and calcium entry.
"I'd rather tend to my garden.
It would be expected that under-reporting of alcohol consumption, if differential, would be greatest among the heaviest drinkers, which would tend rather to underestimate the associations between alcohol intake and biomarker elevation.
As someone who really would rather focus on art than politics, I tend to collect friends from across the political spectrum, admittedly avoiding the extremists on both sides.
Strategic acquirers tend to be larger companies that would rather simply bolt on a fully formed business or product line than build it from scratch.
Most prosecutors, she said, would rather put on live testimony from analysts because it tends to be more compelling than paper records.
