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How to use the word tended in a Sentence? Page #2

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People are more aware of it because of the videos of police violence and the media attention. Now, the media report on it, black folks tended to know about this before. Now white folks are starting to know about it more. ... Now, with this kind of evidence, people have to re-evaluate their sense of what is true and what is not true, so it becomes a little bit harder for people to deny.

Glenn Adams

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's conceivable that they had something like that in mind. They may be rewarding President Ma for policies that he has pursued, that in general have tended to favor closer relations between Taiwan and the mainland.

Aaron Friedberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was never thought to be a limiting factor in performance -- we tended to think that was running out of energy -- but now we understand more about the role neuromuscular function plays in exercise tolerance.

Emma Ross

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What we see there then is this increase in households at the lower end of the income distribution tended to hold down median household income.

Edward Welniak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This does not mean that concussion education itself is an ineffective concept, but that current approaches have tended to be designed in a way that they are not targeting and changing attitudes/beliefs that are actually driving concussion reporting behavior.

Emily Kroshus

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The people that tended to survive were the ones that ended up underneath the dead people, i'm guessing that the person in front took the blast and the person behind was somehow saved. We had to take of the dead bodies from the living people underneath.

Marko Cunningham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Europe has tended to be quite better in general than the U.S. this earnings season ... But the trend towards capital expenditure historically has been disappointing and may continue to be for some time, this is a capex-less recovery.

David Jane

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When at least three people are shot, but less than four people are killed, the media reports tended be local.

Sherry Towers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They sang provocative songs and made inflammatory remarks which tended to aggravate an already volatile situation.

Jacob Zuma

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Murdoch will use his media vehicles to achieve his policy outcomes, politicians across both of the spectra have tended to defer to his interests when thinking about media policy.

Peter Chen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For the last five years the industry has tended to communicate strategy through the rear-view mirror, we are now starting to lift our heads up, look out of the windscreen and talk about where we want to go.

Kevin Hanley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I’ve found myself backsliding a bit of late in terms of where my thoughts have tended to reside (not always with the generosity of vision I wish for) and my confidence has been iffy for the past four months, so, while meditating today, an idea came to me: I’m going to create a shrine to myself —or, at least, the self I wish to be, the self who began to manifest when I was a young girl before the s**t hit the fan.

Jane Fondalikes to toke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think it highly likely that someone, somewhere did bring out a ball and a bit of a kick about took place, but that is a long, long way from saying it definitely happened and that it was anything like a formal match rather than just men tapping a ball about a bit, there is a huge difference between a truce and fraternization and we have tended to put the two together.

Mark Connelly

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The main thing that helps our candidates is, state by state, the fact that they've tended to business, they've been diligent legislators and taken care of the home folks.

Roger Wicker

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Only once then, it happened that my father tended the Grand Duchesses alone and performed nurses' duties for them.

Tatiana Botkina

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal

Woody Allen

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson, Vanity Fair

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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