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Example sentences for: tending

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Soldadera is a play about the women in the Revolution, “women who left homes to follow their men, cooking for them, tending their wounds, guarding their ammunition, fighting when necessary,” as Niggli put it.
The bulk of Malays in the country at large are humbler town- and village-dwelling people — tending goats and buffaloes, growing rice, and working in the coconut, rubber, timber, rattan, and bamboo industries.
"What tedious work it is," confessed a spinster aunt tending to her fatherless nieces and nephews in 1860.
Jane Campion's ( The Piano ) latest offering draws divergent reactions, most tending toward the negative.
Under-researched and perfunctory (no editor or reporter wants this unrewarding, time-consuming assignment), tending toward hyperbole (once a writer has picked things to preview, he has to justify his choices), previews nonetheless provide a valuable service.