How to Use tendency in a Sentence

tendency

noun

• The economy has shown a general tendency toward inflation.
• Does the couch have a tendency to sag?
  — Meg Kernahan, Architectural Digest, 15 May 2026
• There’s a tendency to lean on that too.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
• Pelé’s tendency to smile and smile and smile some more was … what?
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Just make sure the spices are whole, not ground, which have a tendency to burn.
  — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 July 2026
• The score does have this tendency to jump all over the place in terms of genre and tone.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
• But his tendency to swing and miss puts him at risk of washing out.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
• Does the couch have a tendency to sag or do the cushions feel lumpy?
  — Stewart Savin, Architectural Digest, 21 Mar. 2025
• The rest might just be a tendency to excuse young, white men.
  — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 27 July 2026
• Is there a way to see what the tendencies are for cloudy cover on that date?
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Have no sense of your own tendency to regret.
  — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
• He's been involved in close games, but have had a tendency to fade in the end.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
• All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
• But over time, these tendencies have taken their toll.
  — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 14 May 2026
• While bad tendencies showed up in each loss enough good things seemed to appear in the wins.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• Some past tendencies may offer a hint.
  — Jess Bryant, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
• Someone who had a tendency to fall might win the award for biggest klutz.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• The little things along the way have a tendency to become big things.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2022
• These fish have a tendency to gyrate and just go crazy when trying to land them.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
• The most destructive to me are my tendency to live in the past and to hold grudges.
  — cleveland, 23 Apr. 2022
• But as with Baz, the first start back has a tendency to be the roughest.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
• My tendency is to break s**t down and to go to the confrontation.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
• This bottle has a tendency to leak if each of the pieces aren’t secured just right.
  — Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 19 Feb. 2024
• Villa do have a tendency to allow games to drift.
  — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• Negomir, meanwhile, has a tendency to get too pumped up at the start.
  — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
• And bad ideas also have a tendency to reappear each year.
  — Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
• The trouble seemed to stem in part from David’s tendency to look to the past.
  — Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
• And if your child has a tendency to drop things, this set is designed to survive falls.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
• Because of its rapid growth habits, mint has a tendency to become root-bound.
  — The Spruce, 6 July 2026
• At the same time, centrists swung against a left that had indulged its purist tendencies.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 June 2026