How to Use tendency in a Sentence

tendency

noun

• The economy has shown a general tendency toward inflation.
• Is there a way to see what the tendencies are for cloudy cover on that date?
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Santa Claus rally refers to the tendency of stocks to get a bump over the last five trading days of the year and the first two of the next.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
• One of the hazards of a certain age is the knee-jerk tendency to reminisce on the good ol’ days.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• This bottle has a tendency to leak if each of the pieces aren’t secured just right.
  — Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 19 Feb. 2024
• Someone who had a tendency to fall might win the award for biggest klutz.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• On the lawn, there’s a tendency to favor the purest caster or the biggest bomb-thrower.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• There’s also the fact that AI, as things stand today, has a tendency to get things wrong.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• And if your child has a tendency to drop things, this set is designed to survive falls.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
• These fish have a tendency to gyrate and just go crazy when trying to land them.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
• Even as a young child, Paul Tough’s son had a tendency to go all in on new interests.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 27 Mar. 2024
• The Clippers’ tendencies would be of no use to Jimmy Butler.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The greater tendency of men to teach in hard-to-staff (and thus higher-paying) roles explains only some of the wage gap, the researchers found.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
• In the now-famous clip, Liz talked about Ariana’s tendency to sing a lot.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2023
• Instant Pot Let the tendencies and cooking styles guide you to the right appliance.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2024
• Despite their centrist roots and tendencies, the movement’s leaders have not been shy to clearly name the stakes of the conflict.
  — Micah L. Sifry, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• The balloons are meant to give a sense of nostalgia and the carefree tendencies of children, Lawson said.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2024
• Given this tendency, there is no need to give actual toy guns to kids.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• There was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2024
• Here are a few ideas to curb their nose-picking, eye-rubbing, and mouth-touching tendencies—all habits that can spread illness.
  — Kristi Pahr, Parents, 6 Dec. 2023
• Yes, his stalking tendencies are still there, and quickly put to use to peep on his neighbor Kate Galvin (Charlotte Ritchie).
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• Hence, Bella’s tendency to blurt out any and all thoughts, her blunt honesty still that of a child’s, isn’t a bug so much as a feature in the filmmakers’ eyes.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
• Disillusion with work—or as some may see it, a work-shy tendency—isn’t a fair stereotype to brand across all young talent, the founders feel.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Sure, with most teams playing just 11 non-conference games, the tendency is to make sure there are enough winnable games to get your team confidence.
  — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 19 Apr. 2023
• Markets have a tendency to speak over government, or work around it.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• Trump’s tendency to gab meant that minimizing his time on the witness stand was a no-brainer.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• Democrats have, in recent years, demonstrated the tendency to dream a little too big and pile untold sums of campaign cash in the coffers of a litany of no-hopers.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• Researchers attributed this trend to rap songs’ tendency to repeat lines and rhymes.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Habituation is the tendency of neurons to fire less and less in response to things that are constant.
  — TIME, 22 Feb. 2024
• Among the podcast’s key selling points is Horowitz’s tendency to draw out headline-making tidbits from his guests.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024