TENDENCY in a Sentence
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82 example sentences for TENDENCY, such as:
1. He has a tendency to forget things.
2. There's a growing tendency for women to marry later.
3. The drug is effective but has a tendency to cause headaches.
4. There was, it is true, a limit to this tendency to uniformity.
5. And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency.
2. There's a growing tendency for women to marry later.
3. The drug is effective but has a tendency to cause headaches.
4. There was, it is true, a limit to this tendency to uniformity.
5. And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency.
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Meanings and Examples of TENDENCY
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tendency
n. a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
n. an inclination to do something
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1 Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff in the joints and with a tendency to rheumy eyes.
2 I may not deny," said the Prior, crossing himself, "that such things have been, and have been of Heaven; but then such communications have had a visibly useful scope and tendency.
3 There was never much laughing in his presence; or, if there is any difference, it is not more, I think, than such an absence has a tendency to produce at first.
4 To Fanny's mind, Edmund's absence was really, in its cause and its tendency, a relief.
5 After this speech the two girls sat many minutes silent, each thoughtful: Fanny meditating on the different sorts of friendship in the world, Mary on something of less philosophic tendency.
6 And I hope you will not be cruelly concealing any tendency to indisposition.
7 With this consolation, Mr. Sikes appeared to repress a rising tendency to jealousy, and, clasping Oliver's wrist more firmly, told him to step out again.
8 They were of sobering tendency; they allayed agitation; they composed, and consequently must make her happier.
9 "These would have been all my friends," was her thought; and she had to struggle against a great tendency to lowness.
10 The spot was, indeed, a near relation of night, and when night showed itself an apparent tendency to gravitate together could be perceived in its shades and the scene.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
11 There was, it is true, a limit to this tendency to uniformity.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
12 Yet Yeobright was as firm in the contrary intention as if the tendency of marriage were rather to develop the fantasies of young philanthropy than to sweep them away.
13 But he had not anticipated that the tendency of his action would be to divert Wildeve's movement rather than to stop it.
14 And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency.
15 Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky.
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 Industry showed a tendency towards increasingly centralized administration.
2 When it comes to dealing with daily obstacles, people have a tendency toward catastrophizing.
3 The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downwad tendency.
4 The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downward tendency.
5 Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.
6 Greg's tendency to be critical made him unpopular with his co-workers.
7 The drug is effective but has a tendency to cause headaches.
8 He has a tendency to forget things.
9 Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
10 The tendency towards masochism is however always linked with elements of sadism.
11 There's a growing tendency for women to marry later.
12 He complained that there was a tendency to equate right-wing politics with self-interest.
13 Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
14 They have a tendency to show off, to dramatize almost every situation.
15 The tendency of Capital to accumulate is a big threat to the free market.