How to pronounce tends
Listen to tends in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“tends” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 450 American · 621 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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well that tends to be evergreen trees or this particular reading tends to be
USGS · watch from 2:25 · hear it here
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Tends to be assisted treatment.
Dept of Justice · watch from 23:08 · hear it here
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the ADA -- tends to interact with the other acts that protect other communities, and tends
Dept of Labor · watch from 26:03 · hear it here
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tends to produce higher quality, not for every iteration but tends to in its distribution.
Census Bureau · watch from 88:13 · hear it here
Why real speech
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