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Example sentences for: tending

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Jane Campion's ( The Piano ) latest offering draws divergent reactions, most tending toward the negative.
The pronunciation of place names has been tending to conform to their written appearance ever since the coming of the railways, and I notice that the letter t is now always sounded in Hertfordshire , as is the letter l in Colchester .
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.
Eponymous words have never needed much tending or encouragement.
In the New York Times Magazine last spring, he wrote that the Palestinian state toward which the peace process seemed, however pokily, to be tending could not provide democracy and justice for the Palestinians.