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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Did certain choices and tendencies make all the more sense?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2024
• Lefkow’s and Reynolds’s tendency to paint their characters in broad strokes doesn’t help.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• The Clippers’ tendencies would be of no use to Jimmy Butler.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Waco and Ruby Ridge were on our minds, and the way that events like that have a tendency to spiral out of control.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
• Understanding Home Bias As mentioned before, home bias is the tendency to over-invest in your home country.
  — Cicely Jones, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• Traveling East might have been an appropriate tendency for early humans living in what is now Europe near the end of the Ice Age.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025