The balance of the population are asleep within doors, or abroad tending goats in the plains and on the hill-sides.
Even the scattering groups of armed shepherds we met the afternoon before, tending their flocks of long-haired goats, were wanting here.
At any given moment, there is an equilibrium, usually unstable, between the forces tending to correct, and to perpetuate, these inequalities.
Continental climates show great differences in seasonal temperatures, the winterstending to be unusually cold and the summers unusually warm, while the climate of insular tracts is characterised by equableness and also by greater dampness.
The emperor had a taste for horticulture, and took much pleasure in tending the young plants and pruning his trees.
A week devoted to prayer, a convention of Christians meeting to spend eight or ten days in exercises purely devotional, would strike them as something excessive and unnecessary, and tending to fanaticism.
The communings of Christ and his mother on these subjects must have been so long and so intimate that she more calmly and clearly knew exactly whither his life was tending than did his disciples.
Again, in southern Italy implements of typical Aurignacian form, tending toward the superior stage, are found in the grotto of Romanelli, Otranto.
The flanges of the tang are tending to disappear, and in many cases are nothing but an irregular thickening of the parts nearest to the outside.
Celtic lands, and that, though they overlap, they are tending to obtain for themselves definite areas of distribution.
In moving a wire carrying a current through a magnetic field, the lines of force are distorted, and the effect on the wire is the same as though the magnetic lines were elastic cords tending to shorten themselves.
In the figures, the direction of the force is clearly indicated by remembering that the distorted lines of force act like rubber bands tending to straighten and shorten themselves.
It produces a force on the conductor tending to push it in the direction indicated by the arrow, fig.
In the figure, the generator and motor are rotating clockwise, and hence each generates an electromotive force tending upwards from the lower brush to the higher.
The resulting mechanical actions are easily determined by remembering that the magnetic lines act like elastic cords tending to shorten themselves.
The distorted magnetic lines may be regarded as so many rubber bands tending to straighten themselves; The result then is clearly to force the conductor in the direction indicated.
Each is rotating clockwise, and accordingly, each generates an electromotive force tending upward from the lower to the upper brush.
They were rather political questions and answers, tending to the good and religious government of mankind.
He did this and made all sorts of arrangements tending to co-ordinate the work of the various sub-committees along the lines of the plan we drew up.
It seems incredible that Red Cross hospitals should be attacked, but stories come in from every side, tending to show that they are.
There are closer resemblances both of spirit and language in the Republic than in any other dialogue, the verbal similarity tending to show that they were written at the same period of Plato's life.
We may further observe that the art of government, while in some respects tending to improve, has in others a tendency to degenerate, as institutions become more popular.
On the ground towards the middle there was a fountain surrounded by marble, and on the rim of the fountain, resting on a marble slab, was a golden cup, fastened by golden chains tending upwards, the ends of which he could not see.
However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique air, was tending even then to transformation.
It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming, each the other's qualities.
One could but admire the devotion of these women living far off from their own country, tending children whom no one else would tend, and gaining as their reward hatred and misunderstanding from the Chinese.
The lies and prejudices of the policy of compromise, still poisoning the atmosphere even in partiestending towards the Third International, must be thrown aside.
Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangerous and tendingto freethought and heresy, took possession of him.
We almost saw those ancient majesties folding themselves grandly in mantles of purple shadow, but hardly less royal in bearing were the muffled figures of the lonely shepherds tending their flocks on the very summits.
I got ashore, left my mates tending the mackerel, and ran up to Old Carne's cottage to find Mary out.
The hand opens like a fan with the little fingertending toward the chest.
It is rare that a movement tending toward an object does not touch the double form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
