tendency

Definition:
1. An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others.
2. An inclination to do something.
3. A characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect.
4. A general direction in which something tends to move.

Use 'tendency' in a sentence:

• 1. They should also be sceptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.
• 2. He has a tendency to oversell himself.
• 3. American abdication would tempt Soviet tendencies toward filling every vacuum.
• 4. The tendency is for all three to vote together.
• 5. The tendency toward masochism is however always linked with elements of sadism.
• 6. This course is actually going to run counter to that historical tendency.
• 7. Parks has a tendency to become personally involved with his photographic subjects.
• 8. They have a tendency to try to sidetrack you from your task.
• 9. The tendency of events is towards peace.
• 10. They have a tendency to show off, to dramatize almost every situation.
• 11. A 16-year-old boy's tendency to skateboard without a helmet is very normal.
• 12. They should also be skeptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.
• 13. Such a tendency is not to be encouraged.
• 14. As the archaeologist Roger Cribb puts it, "The greater the degree of pastoralism, the stronger the tendency toward nomadism."
• 15. One must be alive to the possibility that one tendency may conceal another.
• 16. They did show decidedly corporatist tendencies.
• 17. Steinberg suspected this tendency could also have its advantages.
• 18. The tendency towards masochism is however always linked with elements of sadism.
• 19. There is a tendency to shut museums or shops at a moment's notice.
• 20. There is a tendency for this disease to run in families.
• 21. It's a tendency which many scholars believe begins in childhood due to parents who overindulge their kids.
• 22. Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.
• 23. The tendency to become obese is at least in part hereditary.
• 24. Stewart has developed a tendency to mix it verbally with the opposition.
• 25. Her suicidal tendencies continued for several more weeks.
• 26. Helen had been struggling against suicidal tendencies.
• 27. We must check bad tendencies.
• 28. In recent years, there is a growing tendency for people to shop online, and most people more or less have the experience of shopping online.
• 29. Maintain friendships. In this world right now, there is a great tendency to move you to one side or the other, and be in conflict.
• 30. The party threw out the Trotskyist Militant Tendency.
• 31. His iconoclastic tendencies can get him into trouble.
• 32. I was always regarded in the Army with a certain amount of suspicion because of my left-wing tendencies.
• 33. This tendency in his thought is deepened by his suspicion of all Utopian political programmes.
• 34. Moving around throughout the day can inhibit a tendency to fidget and chatter.
• 35. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery.
• 36. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency toward snobbery.
• 37. There was an upward tendency in oil shares yesterday.
• 38. Tone down your kamikaze tendencies and take more prudent risks.
• 39. The army has become increasingly restless over the mounting separatist tendencies of the northern republics.
• 40. While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain—a trait called lodging.
• 41. These legislators argue that such a policy would reduce crime dramatically, since it would take people with a proven tendency to commit crimes off the streets permanently.
• 42. These plants have a tendency to grow in the more rural areas.
• 43. He readily admitted to the interviewer that he had a quick temper, with a tendency toward violence.
• 44. She exhibited none of the narcissistic and nihilistic tendencies of her peers.
• 45. I have a tendency to talk too much when I'm nervous.
• 46. She had a tendency to sing flat.
• 47. She has a strong natural tendency towards caution.
• 48. Conversely, teachers who have a tendency to "overdirect" can diminish their gifted pupils' learning autonomy.
• 49. Hartman describes Milton's tendency in Paradise Lost, and he takes this term from Coleridge: the tendency to stand ab extra, to stand from outside.
• 50. He had clear homicidal tendencies.
• 51. There is a growing tendency among employers to hire casual staff.