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How to use the word tended in a Sentence?

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I’m not sure who the Republicans will put forward as their nominees, but normally the folks who get to determine who the nominee is are the voters in those individual states in the primaries, if we look at what happened last cycle, those primary voters tended to pick highly flawed candidates, and I expect that will happen again.

Gary Peters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They were a group that defied easy categorization, and they tended to challenge – and in some cases, upend – the easy definition of American society into the categories of Black and White.

Eric Goldstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m a Type A personality and I worry a lot about a lot of things — my family, my finances, the future, also, I’ve tended to dwell on things that happened in the past and get all worked up.

Stephen Snyder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Looking back to previous scandals, Murdoch and the companies have tended to try to pay early and quietly to make things go away, or they ignore them thinking they’re so big they can ride things out, and then when things really come to a head, they try to cauterize the wound at the lowest level possible.

David Folkenflik

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We just came through an election where the economy was issue number one and tended to favor Republicans, but there were other issues, like the sanctity and security of our democracy and abortion, that Democrats really rallied around and overperformed expectations in the midterm election, despite the very negative views on the economy.

David Chalian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Smell disorder typically resolved at about 9 months, but when they were present concentration and memory changes tended to be more persistent.

Peter Openshaw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was always a group of contrarian intellectuals or pseudointellectuals who were very aggressive and tended to downplay the severity of the pandemic and say it was a hoax or nothing more than the flu.

Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was literally on my deathbed and hanging from a string, and [ doctors and nurses ] tended to me as perfect strangers.

Richard Soliz thanks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've seen up and down the coast hundreds of buildings where you have concrete problems, if not maintained, whether it's a concrete problem or a settling problem -- it could be a bridge, it could be a building, it could be a dam or a sea wall -- these kind of things happen if not tended to.

Greg Batista

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've seen up and down the coast hundreds of buildings where you have concrete problems, if not maintained, whether it's a concrete problem or a settling problem, it could be a bridge, it could be a building, it could be a dam or a sea wall -- these kind of things happen if not tended to.

Greg Batista

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Perhaps he was a World War Two black market trader or something like that. And that can explain a number of things. For example, why people possibly didn't come forward to identify him. Because, you know, if he's in with a group of people that are doing something a bit dodgy, they wouldn't want any light shone on their activities, for the clothes, perhaps they were second hand, and in those days you tended to clip off the labels because quite often people wrote on those manufacturers' labels in ink to indicate their name or something.

Derek Abbott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The people who blame everything and every body else for their lack of success, tended to continue to have a lack of success. Your Proactive, problem solving minded, assertive and responsible approach is going to carry you much further than whining, blaming, pointing fingers and justifying your failures.

Loren Weisman

added by lorenweisman
3 years ago

The people who blame everything and every body else for their lack of success, tended to continue to have a lack of success. Your Proactive, problem solving minded, assertive and responsible approach is going to carry you much further than whining, blaming, pointing fingers and justifying your failures.

Loren Weisman

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

Ry Cooder

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

In our Adventist Health Study-2 people tended to have lower blood pressures, lower LDL cholesterol, less prevalence of the metabolic syndrome, and less diabetes, broadly defined vegetarians, which includes the pesco - and the semi-vegetarian, have a lower risk of colorectal cancer by about 22 %. Pesco-vegetarians have a lower risk for prostate cancer.

Michael Orlich

Found on CNN
4 years ago

At 4.45 p.m., there were two lightning strikes at East Lake Golf Club; a tree near the range/15 green/16 tee was hit, and debris from that strike injured four people, (Emergency personnel) tended to those fans and two others immediately and transported them from the property via ambulance for further medical attention.

PGA Tour

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The government has tended to take over cases that become winners, historically, the government's decision to take this over is a bad sign.

Jennifer Arlen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Car companies are good at validation and homologation and lack software development skills, while software companies have the opposite problem, the IT industry has always valued speed of development more than perfecting the product, while the auto industry has tended to veer toward perfecting a product over rushing it out.

Elmar Degenhart

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

To be honest, it's not a wall, the president still says' wall' — oftentimes frankly he'll say' barrier' or' fencing,' now he's tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it.

John Kelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We citizens have tended to lose faith in ourselves and in each other.

Jimmy Carter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I saw one injured policeman with an injury to his arm, although it didn't look severe. He was being tended to by another officer.

Metropolitan Police

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We found that men with darker skin and more stereotypically black facial features tended to be most likely to elicit biased size perceptions, even though they were actually no larger than men with lighter skin and less stereotypical facial features.

John Paul Wilson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We did offer to pay the factories in RMB. It's in our interest to make it as easy as possible for them to sell to us, so that we're the easiest route to market, but it all tended to get a little bit crazy. They have foreign bank accounts and that's where they handle all their foreign sales. So when we tried to pay in yuan they changed it into U.S. dollars, and then they transfer it from U.S. dollars back into RMB. So we couldn't see any logic or benefit.

Bob Latham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Obama administration has tended to downplay, to belittle, the ideological importance of the problem, you can't explain away the terrorism problem as a matter of economic and political frustration.

Douglas Feith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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