How to Use tend in a Sentence

tend

verb

• When the financial market is down, the price of gold tends to rise.
  — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• What’s more, the wind guards also tend to slip out of the inserts when bumped or moved around.
  — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• In the sports world, in the business world, in the Mountain Brook world, a lot of people tend to act like the smartest person in the room.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2023
• Over the afternoons, the tent also tends to people passed out from the heat.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• Couples, for the most part, tend to stay faithful for life, which can add at least three years on to life.
  — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
• The Texas properties, on the other hand, tend to be more affordable in the height of the summer.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2024
• Deer mice tend to be bigger than house mice and have white bellies and brown or tan backs.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• For decades, the face of that product in Delaware tended to be old, white and male.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024
• When her husband moved to Delhi to work as a plumber, she was left alone to tend the couple’s fields.
  — Uzmi Athar, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
• Most mattresses sold on Amazon tend to be on the cheaper side, which is the main draw.
  — Martin Cizmar, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• Selections with lighter leaves tend to last the longest.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• Utah Tech and Utah Valley students, meanwhile, tended to have the lowest salaries of the bunch.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• The oil can also tend to split ends: apply it to the ends of the hair, wear a processing cap for 10 minutes, then rinse it out.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2023
• But Take Note This pick tends to run small, so if your kiddo is between sizes, order the size up.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
• Convenience, though, tends to be a hollow virtue on its own.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2023
• Younger women tend to have denser breasts, which can result in more biopsies.
  — Christina Ruffini, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
• Listeria’s worst tends to strike people over the age of 65, under the age of 5 and pregnant women.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• With both teams out of the playoff mix, midweek games in September — after the start of the school year — tend to lose their luster.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Keep in Mind Custom items tend to have long production times.
  — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2023
• Kitchens tended to just sort of be like a big room with a bunch of freestanding furniture just sort of plopped in it.
  — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2023
• The high season is from January through April, when the weather is at its best but prices tend to be at their highest.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2023
• Mixing the pellets into the soil of the wool pot will result in thriving plants that require less tending to.
  — Ebony Roberts, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023
• Mary tends to keep a low profile compared to her older brother.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
• But the truth, in each case, has tended to look more like erosion than revolution.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
• Shipping tends to be a lot more difficult and expensive when the seas are teeming with mines.
  — John Gustavsson, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
• Prospective postdocs also tend to be younger and are less likely to be Black or female.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
• Just a quick note: The prices tend to fluctuate depending on the size, color, and specific style.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 12 July 2023
• Just a quick note: The prices tend to fluctuate depending on the size, color, and specific style, so go in with an open mind.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2023
• The concentration of these white blood cells related to immune function tends to decrease with age.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
• There was a lengthy break in the action when someone in the audience appeared to require medical assistance and the Jonas Brothers paused the concert, leaving the stage for several minutes while security tended to the person.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024