tend - use in sentences

Object

  • garden: B reakfast is taken in the dining room overlooking the well tended garden.
  • herd: When he was about fifteen years old, he was kidnaped by Irish pirates and reduced to slavery to tend herds for six years.
  • wound: The Fighter/Thief has his wounds tended and healed by Clerics using heal Spells, so that he is ready for combat again.
  • crop: Many farmers and farm workers are too ill to tend the crops, exacerbating the problem of food production.
  • expansion: Rows and cheap online car insurance quote of expansions tended to.
  • fire: They were instrumental in the ceremonies, tending the altar fires, and offering prayers to Mithra at dawn, noon and dusk.

Infinitive complement

  • focus: Many policies tend to focus on enhancing people's income by growing the economy.
  • concentrate: However, it has tended to concentrate on lower risk asset classes.
  • occur: However, lucid dreams do tend to occur in periods of higher cortical arousal.
  • think: I tend to think much less about it than I used to.
  • forget: Tends to forget all advice given once things go wrong.
  • favor: For a start I wish they would both drive in the crosses rather than float them in which tends to favor the keeper.

Modifying Another Word

  • lovingly: But Karen added: " Many of the graves have been lovingly tended and decorated in a special way by doting parents.
  • inevitably: In practice they have lower contributions which inevitably tend to yield a lower income for people when they retire.
  • therefore: The atom we are interested in will therefore tend to carry either a partial positive charge or form a positive ion.
  • generally: Each series of paintings generally tend to be linked with a particular theme, idea or color palette.
  • also: They also tend to have a lighter, softer texture.
  • unfortunately: Men unfortunately tend to go to their doctor later rather than sooner once they find something wrong.

Preposition: in

  • direction: Control allocation of coarse grains might well tend in that direction.
  • favor: A prosecution will usually take place unless " there are public interest factors tending against prosecution which clearly outweigh those tending in favor " .

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