How to Use tendency in a Sentence

tendency

noun
  • The economy has shown a general tendency toward inflation.
  • But as with Baz, the first start back has a tendency to be the roughest.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
  • There is a tendency to pin a celebrity down in the apex of their fame.
    Mark Peikert, Town & Country, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The most destructive to me are my tendency to live in the past and to hold grudges.
    cleveland, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Pelé’s tendency to smile and smile and smile some more was … what?
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • What’s remained the same is the tendency of the press to try to fit Lager into a neat box.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The little things along the way have a tendency to become big things.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2022
  • And there is already a tendency to talk to Siri to Alexa like a person.
    Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
  • And both parties, when Congress doesn't do their job, and the White House, have a tendency to try to solve it.
    CBS News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • And there is already a tendency to talk to Siri or Alexa like a person.
    Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
  • The tailgate had a tendency to stick and was tough to get open and fully closed at times, and the handle to open the tongue box was loose.
    New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2024
  • But, when the big moment draws near, there can be a tendency to over swing a bit, in the adrenaline rush of it all.
    Elie Honig, CNN, 8 June 2022
  • 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
  • Again, there’s a tendency to look toward the B2C CX for guidance, but that would be a mistake.
    Evgeny Grigul, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • There’s also still the tendency to talk about Africa as one country.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 14 July 2022
  • The tendency in the forecast has been for the front to set up across southeast portions of the Kansas City forecast area.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Some faux fur pillows may have a tendency to look cheap and chintzy, but this one looks anything but.
    Jennifer Carmichael, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This was in line with a general tendency throughout the 1930s to seek to exempt Catholic Jews from the Race Laws.
    Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The most telling detail in reports like these, though, is the tendency to frame Israel’s main problem as a public-relations issue.
    Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
  • But even some scholars who say Trump has autocratic tendencies think the American system should be able to withstand them.
    Frank Langfitt, NPR, 22 Apr. 2025

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