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
• Chinese markets, which tend to be less affected by global trends, saw more moderate losses.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• Watch for small nutlets that tend to fall off and get left behind.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
• Yet Guardiola, like most managers, tends to see only the decisions that go against his team, and not the ones that go in their favour.
  — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
• This kind of thing always tends to work on me.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2026