TEND in a Sentence

Learn TEND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
220 example sentences for TEND, such as:
1. Sports cars tend to hold their value well.
2. I tend to go to bed earlier during the winter.
3. I tend to overuse certain favourite expressions.
4. Now, Mr. Siddy, you jist 'tend to your own business.'
5. People tend to think that the problem will never affect them.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TEND
tend
 v.  have care of or look after
 v.  manage or run
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  Soon Raphael Semmes and the Confederate Navy would tend to those Yankee gunboats and the ports would be wide open.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  And if anybody dares say one little word about you, I'll tend to them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  If Scarlett had a baby, she would love it and be content to stay home and tend it like other women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  But obviously you do like to work and obviously you aren't going to let any man tend to your business for you, and so no one can feel sorry for you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  "You tend to your end of selling and let me tend to my end of lumbering," he said shortly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  "You tend to your business and I'll tend to mine," she said indignantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  Jurgis was called upon to do the beating, and as it hurt his foot he did it with a vengeance; but it did not tend to add to the sweetness of his temper.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  She takes to nursing real natural, and an't never better suited than when she gets a sick body to tend.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  On ascending the stairs, the Miss Dashwoods found so many people before them in the room, that there was not a person at liberty to tend to their orders; and they were obliged to wait.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
11  My footsteps seemed to tend so naturally to the shop door, after I had read these words from over the way, that I went across the road and looked in.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
12  Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it was new to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, or to strengthen my confidence in, Mr. Jack Maldon.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
13  Among other havens of domestic tranquillity and peace of mind, my feet will naturally tend towards the King's Bench Prison.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
14  It was Mrs. Craven's garden that she had made when first they were married an she just loved it, an they used to tend the flowers themselves.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  Now, Mr. Siddy, you jist 'tend to your own business.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
1  Doctors these days tend to be more open-minded about alternative medicine.
2  People tend to think that the problem will never affect them.
3  We women have a lot of good business skills, although we tend to underrate ourselves.
4  We tend to assume that everybody has a car these days and will be affected by these increases.
5  We tend to go skiing during the off-season because it's cheaper.
6  I tend to go to bed earlier during the winter.
7  Officials tend to tilt toward secrecy from a parochial view of their responsibilities.
8  Sports cars tend to hold their value well.
9  I tend to watch the television for pleasure rather than edification.
10  We are all born flexible but as we grow older, we tend to seize up a little.
11  I tend to overuse certain favourite expressions.
12  Women, in general, tend to be more concerned than men about their personal appearance.
13  The worst sufferers of the condition tend to live in highly polluted areas.
14  In our culture, girls are brought up to tend to the needs of others.
15  Democratic leaders under election pressure tend to respond with vague promises of action.