Example sentences for: tending

How can you use “tending” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "What tedious work it is," confessed a spinster aunt tending to her fatherless nieces and nephews in 1860.

  • Since the Times started publishing these poems over the weekend, there has been much comment tending to exonerate Hughes of the blame often attributed him for Plath's suicide.

  • 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 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 .

  • Turn-of-the-century courts did not display a libertarian attitude toward civil rights; they displayed a libertarian attitude toward economic rights, tending to throw out legislation aimed at regulating industry and protecting workers on the grounds that people had a constitutional right to enter into contracts and to use their own property as they saw fit.


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