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Tendency
"Tendency" in a Sentence (17 examples)
You have a tendency to talk too fast.
Another tendency of many Japanese speakers that bothers foreigners is to make statements that are too general and too broad by using or implying words like "all" and "every".
That tendency is strong among Americans.
Today there seems to be a tendency to make little of human relations.
Children have a tendency to become rebellious.
There is a tendency for people to think that hang gliding is dangerous.
There is a tendency for Japanese to want to know a certain amount of personal information about someone such as age, position and whether they are married or not, before they feel comfortable talking with a stranger.
He has a tendency toward exaggeration.
He has a tendency to be pessimistic.
It seems to me that she has a tendency to exaggerate.
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Denim has a tendency to fade.
I have a tendency to get bored after the first half an hour of a movie.
There's a common tendency among first-game visitors to a casino to bet overcautiously.
In some details, Britannia shows the trend towards American practice that was already apparent in later L.M.S.R. designs—for example, in regard to the mounting of the cab—and this tendency has been further developed in the footwalk with deep sideplating, mounted on the boiler, in place of the framing and splashers usual in British practice in the past.
Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.
In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.
It reinforced the position of the conformist tendency within the party, since the majority of the candidates were old politicians, many of them members of Papandreou's centre-left CU faction back in the mid-1960s.
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