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Example sentences for "tend"

Lexicographically close words:
tenauntes; tenaunts; tenax; tence; tench; tendance; tendances; tendant; tended; tendencies
  1. The next step is that the disciple should associate himself or herself with some other Parmarthi of the opposite sex and tend and serve them.

  2. It is believed that both the Jaiswaras and Mahars who work as grooms have taken to marrying among themselves and tend to form separate endogamous groups, because they consider themselves superior to the remainder of the caste.

  3. Soon they begin to realise that this does them no harm, and get accustomed to it, with the result that the prejudices about bodily contact tend to disappear.

  4. Similarly those members of the Mahar servile caste who are village watchmen tend to marry among themselves and form a superior group to the others.

  5. The Deshmukh families now tend to form a separate subcaste of Kunbis and marry among themselves.

  6. Castes, in fact, tend to rise or fall in social position with the acquisition of land or other forms of wealth or dignity much in the same manner as individuals do nowadays in European countries.

  7. Of the Ahirs or graziers only 20 per cent tend and breed cattle.

  8. The shepherd castes who tend sheep and goats (the Gadarias, Dhangars and Kuramwars) also fall into this group.

  9. Already the principal aims of the Samaj tend mainly to the social improvement of its members and their fellow-Indians.

  10. In cooking put it into boiling water in which a little salt and soda has been sprinkled, which will tend to preserve the natural green color.

  11. It is, in general, a wise rule, and one which will tend much to insure your comfort through life, to avoid disclosures to others of family affairs.

  12. Lastly, a thousand observations of this sort made upon malignant fevers and somnambulism tend to prove that the Queen of Night has a mysterious influence upon terrestrial maladies.

  13. I'd git up in de mornings, make fires, put on de coffee, and tend to my little brother.

  14. Mistress have to tend de children and Vici have to take care of Master Bill and look after the house, and dat leave me all by myself wid all the rest of everything around the place.

  15. People here don't live right and I don't lak to 'tend church.

  16. And I should choose to tend some sort of live-stock.

  17. That will tend to convince the wretched author of my woe that there is nothing blame-worthy in my friendship for you.

  18. Fifth, nothing would tend more to effect general contentment and repress the evils of comparative treatment, than the issue of fish as a right by law.

  19. We shall feel indebted to our friends for such information, as it may be in their power to afford us on this important subject, as it will tend to their advantage equally with that of their laborers, from the same being made public.

  20. I felt as I cannot describe; yet I thought, as the supervisor was disposed to be civil, my presence might tend to make the punishment less severe than it usually is--but I was disappointed.

  21. Our enemies rely on couriers and face-to-face contacts with associates and tend to use what is accessible in their local areas as well as what they can afford.

  22. Specific targets vary, but they tend to be symbolic and often selected because they will produce mass casualties, economic damage, or both.

  23. For to no other pass my verses tend Than of your graces and your gifts to tell (ciii.

  24. But, all the while that Shakespeare was fancifully assuring his patron [How] to no other pass my verses tend Than of your graces and your gifts to tell, his dramatic work was steadily advancing.

  25. But inasmuch as mediaeval form and diction tend to remove further and further from classical standards, the whole discussion may seem a lucus a non lucendo for all the light it throws upon the effect of the Classics on mediaeval literature.

  26. A number of preliminary chapters show how all things tend to an end; that the end of all is God; and that to know God is the end of every intellectual being.

  27. He directed him to tend the sick man when He commanded that the human race should be saved from sin.

  28. She pinched me, and called me squealing chit, and threw me into a girl's arms that was taken in to tend me.

  29. Those persons at the helm are so useful, and in themselves of such weight, that their strict alliance must needs tend to the universal prosperity of the people.

  30. On these occasions his remarks were often very much to the point; but his manner being somewhat aggressive and polemic, his interposition did not always tend to make smooth the course of debate.

  31. She telled Sarah Jane to 'tend to me and Sarah Jane's asleep.

  32. Sarah Jane 'lowed she's going, but she ain't got nobody to 'tend to Bennie Dick.

  33. The principle that action and reaction are equal and opposite indicates that, if a magnetic pole tend to rotate around a conductor conveying a current, there must be an equal tendency for the conductor to rotate around the pole.

  34. Why does the flame of a candle tend upwards in a spire?

  35. Points, besides, tend to repel the fragments of an electrical cloud; knobs draw them nearer.

  36. Seler's suggestion that in this connection ik may be compared to kan is appropriate, but this comparison does not tend to the support of his theory.

  37. These facts seem to show that the symbol has some reference to maize, and tend to confirm the view expressed above, that the compound symbol shown in plate LXIV, 9, denotes "maize bread.

  38. The land looks dry and lacks rain, but the numerous creeks and springs must necessarily tend to moisten it much.

  39. We have many such trials in the camp which are amusing enough and tend among other things to pass away the time cheerfully during leisure moments.

  40. As will appear from his portrait on the frontispiece, William Clayton did not tend to frivolity or mirth but rather to seriousness and earnestness.

  41. No, madam, but the combinations of this world having led me to talk much with strangers, I contrive to tuscanize it all I can for their advantage, and doubt not but it will tend to my own at last.

  42. He could not work in the field in Britain, tend sheep, drive a team, break stones.

  43. I have seen the weals and torn flesh; but the men did not seem to care so much about it, nor did it tend to brutalise them, as asserted.

  44. The tremendous severity of the heavy curb-bit must also tend to moderate the gambades of all but the most vicious or untamed animals.

  45. It is asserted that they grow too fast, tend to height and slenderness, and do not possess adequate stamina and muscle.

  46. The hours spent in the saddle or at the watch-fire tend to a pleasant weariness of mind and body.

  47. All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord.

  48. But, even after the spring-time of youth is past, there are occasions when the mind is peculiarly susceptible to the force of a pithy maxim, which may tend to the reforming of one’s way of life.

  49. We always tend to waste that which is cheap and economize that which is dear.

  50. Its Call for Rural Leadership "We must picture to ourselves a new rural social structure, developed from the strong resident forces of the open country; and then we must set at work all the agencies that will tend to bring this about.

  51. Often where rival churches tend to divide the neighborhood unpleasantly, the Grange unifies with its broad fellowship and constructive program.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tendency toward; tendency towards; tender conscience; tender heart; tender notes; tender years