Trend

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"Trend" in a Sentence (24 examples)

This has been the trend for the past twenty years.

The question here is one of creating the framework with which we can outline the social trend.

The XYZ Almanacs from 1950 to 1970 were studied to discover the trend.

There's a trend these days towards small families.

Financial experts don't know what to make of this trend.

I'm worried about the global warming trend.

The job-seeking season is starting earlier each year and it's the mass media that are causing that trend by moving up their job interview schedule.

It's the trend that counts.

The trend of public opinion is against corporal punishment.

The trend towards late marriage is going to increase more and more.

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the trend of a coastline

the upward trend of stock-market prices

Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet.

There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.

Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.

To stay on top of what's happening, a good photographer has to follow the trends by watching what's being done in fashion magazines.

But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).

The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.

Not farre beneath i' the Valley as ſhe trends / Her ſiluer ſtreame, ſome VVood-nymphs and her friends / That follovv'd to her aide, beholding hovv / The Brooke came gliding, […]

What topics have been trending on social networks this week?

"Puppy Bowl" was even a trending sports topic on Facebook.

The hashtag #RepublicofThailand trended on Twitter in Thailand on Friday after parliament voted to push back the question of changing the constitution as protesters have demanded.

The platform, founded in 2006, also came along just as TV’s cultural cachet was rising, with a growth in ambitious, talk-about-able appointment series. “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” premiered during its run; twist-heavy serials like “Scandal” and “Game of Thrones” delivered the kind of OMG moments that got them trending regularly.

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