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Example sentences for "trend"

Lexicographically close words:
trenched; trencher; trenchers; trenches; trenching; trended; trending; trends; trenta; trente
  1. Although the latter have special late and unreliable features, they agree with the former in presenting the same general trend of past history.

  2. This land of the maine doth trend Southeast, and Southeast by East.

  3. Southerly of the saide riuers mouth, or els that you shal trend about the very Northerne and most Easterly point of all Asia, passing by the prouince Ania, and then to the latitude of 46.

  4. This day we had sight of Vaigatz: the land of the maine of Pechora did trend Southeast, we hald East southeast, and had 10.

  5. Some of them attempt to give a religious content to the present trend of science and philosophy, and, generally, they represent the free movement of what one may call the creative religious consciousness of our time.

  6. It is centrally and quite distinctly an attempt to give a religious content to the present trend of science and philosophy, a reaction against old theologies and perhaps a kind of nebula out of which future theologies will be organized.

  7. These ideas are not of mere academic interest; they have dominated the trend of Victorian politics for many years.

  8. Now and again she lifted her eyes, murmured assent, seemed to listen, always subacutely following the trend of her own reflections.

  9. Only that morning when he rushed past me in the hall," she replied, not apprehending the trend of his questions.

  10. Ten young birds, taken during their first autumn journey, show a general south-easterly trend through Europe.

  11. This trend is noticeable in the work of Gustav Frenssen (b.

  12. And then, cutting through the fog of selfishness and snobbery like rays of the sun through mist, came a new trend of thought, far more worthy of the real Tamar.

  13. Meanwhile, the stunted mind of Mog, the sullen, was laboriously following an altogether different trend of thought from that of his leader.

  14. Barrowe hoped by his system to secure the independence of the local churches and also to avoid the repellent attitude of a nation that was as yet unprepared to welcome any trend towards democracy.

  15. In this he followed closely Macy's own trend of thought and desire.

  16. Then came one of those slight incidents, seemingly trifling at the moment of the occurrence but sometimes changing the entire trend of men and their affairs.

  17. And so there has come to be a distinct trend toward putting men's goods upon a high upper floor, but with special express elevator service, so that their purchasers can get in and out with a minimum use of their valuable time.

  18. Much to my astonishment, the first objects which encountered my eye were four icebergs, floating detached but close together at a distance of about three miles on my side of the north-east trend of the island.

  19. This trend or direction, it may be remembered, was the second of those offered to us, starting from a central image.

  20. Here, once more, it has been our aim to follow the natural trend of the movement of the imagination.

  21. The trend of the river in the section of the old pueblo settlements is really westward.

  22. In the course of the first volumes of the Letters from Paris, Börne, following the general trend of Oppositionist feeling in Germany, progressed from enthusiasm for constitutionalism to hope of revolution.

  23. People who talked about bringing the English Church into line with the trend of Western Christianity lacked a sense of history.

  24. I do not approve of what I assume will be the trend of your education, and I should have to disclaim any further responsibility in the matter of my nephew's future.

  25. If I were to assist in the arrangement of an all American exhibition to show the trend toward individualism I should begin with Martin, Fuller and Ryder.

  26. Painters like Davies, Redon, Rops, Moreau, and the other mystical natures, give us rather the spiritual trend of their own lives.

  27. The culture of the Ashikaga had from the beginning a trend to grow more and more humanistic as it approached the end of the period.

  28. The trend seems to be so they will function as one agricultural institution.

  29. The present trend in the propagation of fruit trees is toward selection of particularly suitable rootstocks.

  30. Unbelievably strange, however, it was that the rays of his anger by some subconscious process had hovered from the first about the son of Hilary Vane, and were now, by the trend of event after event, firmly focussed there.

  31. The opening through which Captain Cook passed out to sea, bore about North by East 9 miles, the outer line of the Barrier Reef, curving from thence to the North-West, and following the trend of the land.

  32. We espied a ridge extending to the South-east from Beagle Bank, which supplies another fact in support of the opinion I have before advanced, and which gives a north-westerly trend to these ledges.

  33. The ship's track during the day followed the trend of the land, keeping about seven miles from it, except when opposite Cape Direction, where we were about half that distance from the shore.

  34. The high land which was almost level, lay about three miles in our rear, following the trend of the shore.

  35. He perceived the radical trend of the Anabaptists—which it is true was not without some affinity with his own doctrines.

  36. The eastern summit of this range is precipitous and is deeply cut by numerous ice-worn cirques which extend at right angles to the trend of this range.

  37. At timber-line its trend is toward the southeast.

  38. What secret power, we wondered, could so propel him for hundreds of rods, with an upward trend at the close?

  39. I ought, I feared, to have devoted more attention to survey matters, to the exact trend of the mountains, and the source and course of the rivers.

  40. In that paper he gave an account of the height of the peaks, the trend of the mountain ranges, the course of the rivers, and a deal of other very valuable geographical information.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.