Tended

The garden is tended with great care.

The management tended to be too concerned about short-term improvement of the bottom line to have any long-term design for the future.

Crashes in the early days of commercial jets tended to be caused by technical faults, such as metal fatigue in the airframe or engines.

In those days I tended to think of myself as a nice looking guy.

He tended to be lenient toward the children.

The girl wanted to monopolize her father's affection and tended to view her mother as a competitor.

Scented soaps tended to make her skin itch.

The girl wanted all her father's love for herself and tended to see her mother merely as a rival.

Slowly, their bond grew ever deeper, amazingly enough. Clarence found that repeating what he'd learned of her and nodding a lot tended to help.

Tom tended to the fire.