6 sentences with 'tends'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tends and other words derived from it.
• « If your resolve tends to fade as the days go by, schedule your workout early ... or later in the day if you're not a morning person. »
• « The rump tends to lurch, like a car skidding on a slippery curve. To correct this, you have to touch the flank on the opposite side of the bend. »
• « Gilbert Walker discovered, in 1925, that when there is high pressure in the Pacific, there tends to be low pressure in the Indian Ocean, and he called it the Southern Oscillation or the seesaw effect. This phenomenon reverses every three years. Later, the scientist Namis deduced that this effect causes the entire Pacific, especially the equatorial zone, to overheat. »
• « When travelling abroad, one tends to take the unseemly behaviour of one's compatriots as a personal affront. So a little voice began to pray deep inside me: "Lord, let them be English, German or even French". »
• « "I believe that God exists and that the Devil also exists, but in us. Here is my formula: God is our ideal in particular, and the Devil everything that tends to turn us away from Him". This almost agnostic synthesis of the French thinker coincides with non diabolist theologies, but contradicts the truths of faith. »
• « In the 1950s and 1960s, sleep time had already shortened considerably - down to seven and a half to eight hours - and the social and economic situation tends to reduce it further. »