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Example sentences for "general tendency"

  • But these passing beliefs indicate a general tendency, and may have paved the way for the more definite conception of bodily restoration.

  • While the popular cults in the civilized world have held somewhat pertinaciously to pluralistic views, there has been a general tendency in advanced circles everywhere toward a unitary conception of the government of the world.

  • The religious ideas expressed in such compositions varied with time and place, but they show a general tendency toward a monolatrous or henotheistic point of view and toward higher ethical and spiritual feeling.

  • The quantities of these are relatively small, and, excepting rabbits from Australia, they show no general tendency to increase.

  • While there is a general tendency in the group to mucilaginous degeneration of the cell-wall, in Laminaria digitata there are also glands secreting a plentiful mucilage.

  • In women, during menstruation, there is a general tendency to pigmentation; this is especially obvious around the eyes, and in some cases black rings of true pigment form in this position.

  • Associated with this vascular activity in detumescence we find a general tendency to glandular activity.

  • These lines are, of course, always, in general tendency, perpendicular.

  • I say "perfectly horizontal," meaning, of course, in general tendency.

  • Webster, we find that a general tendency to extreme seasons does seem to exist from the 6th to the 10th year of every decade, and especially of every alternate decade.

  • Sometimes the tropical storms are most numerous; at others the polar waves; and at others the irregular local storms, or general tendency to showers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dinner speech; general action; general amnesty; general attack; general chapter; general character; general condition; general convention; general debility; general movement; general peace; general propositions; general return; general staff; general symptoms; general theory; general truths; generally believed; generally considered; generally found; generally regarded; generally understood; generally used; natural history; neutral ship; she observed