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How to use the word tending in a Sentence?

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Governments must nurture freedom as a garden, tending to it vigilantly to prevent its withering under the shadow of authority.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
4 months ago

I have sources that I’ve been tending to for 50 years.

Christopher Andersen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was always ready to greet him at the door and pamper him, i loved taking care of Elvis very much. I loved tending to him. I loved feeding him. We would baby talk because you have to have your own language when you have that many people around. It was a good life. It was different, but it was ours.

Lisa Marie Presley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You could make the case that Crowley was more in touch with the inside-the-Beltway D.C. game and House leadership, rather than tending to his garden at home.

Joshua Henne

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Tending beehives on top of New York City and other urban areas is nothing new. However, there has been something of a renaissance in the past five to eight years and it has gained great popularity.

Andrew Coté

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We told them we can manage without their help, it is as if we are doing everything on our own, feeding our people, tending to the sick.

Mohammad Ishaq

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the Americans are finding it difficult to understand or accept our clarifications (on Palestinian statehood), this is certainly worrying and requires tending to, he (Netanyahu) didn't say this (statehood) is 'unacceptable'. He said reality has changed.

Yuval Steinitz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Maybe they should spend less time trash-talking and more time tending their own garden: Their party in Congress is currently filibustering a bill that would help prevent children from being sold into sex slavery -- and the President won't lift a finger. Think about that for a minute.

Don Stewart

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The DA's office was the only law enforcement agency looking into whether violations of the constitution had occurred, now, we no longer have the fox tending the hen house.

Kate Corrigan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You have to ask what the alternative is - does the consumer want to save his money, invest in shares or in physical objects such as the home? At the moment, given the low interest rate, he's tending to put it into consumption.

Markus Sander

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For every person we have on the bottom, there's four more people up on the surface that are tending him, talking to him and being sure that whatever he is doing is safe.

Gordon Watts of Panamerican Consultants

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Leaving the property to nature would mean there is still a sense of darkness in our neighborhood, love and light that a new family would bring would help heal some of the very deep wounds we are still tending to.

Amy DeLoughy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Paul Valéry

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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