What is "tended to"

Usage examples of "tended to".

Both the elaborateness and the Latinity have tended to diminish the popularity of the play considerably in later times.

But something about him told Jin that he was one of those big, fast men people tended to underestimate on the theory that anyone that big had to be too slow to be dangerous.

As occasionally happened in periods of stress, I tended to forget the lameness of my leg.

Florian's lips were very full, and like his father's, tended to be loose and more than a little wet.

And if you started throwing up, they tended to get nervous and stick you in what passed for an infirmary and leave you alone.

The land was the usual redrock, though here tinted blackish, as it tended to be through this region, darkening as you move east towards black Syrtis.

Fenring didn't much care for her personality, but she was a good worker and tended to his needs, albeit humorlessly.

Taking it off after a long day was often a pest, as it fitted tightly and tended to cling to my skin.

Kabe knew this was how disputes tended to be settled in the Culture.

Blood females tended to reach puberty later than landens, and witches' bodies required even more time to prepare for the physical changes that separated a girl from a woman.

The faces were the clearest, but it was as if every living creature carried its own little spot-light with himand from the way the females tended to be dressed and act, it was pretty obvious that there was no lack of professional ladies on this section of Bull.

Kirk knew that McCoy tended to worry about even the most trivial of problems, but there was a depth to this particular expression that boded no good.