Verb (used without object) : The particles tend to unite. ,He tends to be overly optimistic. Her religious philosophy tends toward pantheism. ,measures tending to improved working conditions; Governments are tending toward democracy. ,This wine tends toward the sweet side. ,a path tending toward the beach.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to tend a fire. ,to tend the sick.    From Dictionary.com. 

Bar tending is high on the list of the most dangerous jobs in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Guns In Bars] Reference

To break or damage in a grinding sort of way is to graunch, a word tending to replace puckeroo, I think.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1] Reference

The U.S. should have seen an increase in the money supply, causing higher prices and over the long term tending to restore trade balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Real Monetary Problem] Reference

But Leah wasn't really so keen on the idea of tending to her big sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Covenant]

McKnight was asked for a comment Friday but was on call tending patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [thenewsstar.com - Sports] Reference

If their foreign policy views can be fairly characterized as tending toward “isolationism”?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities] Reference

She certainly said no word tending to make that lady think that the sermons had been of any avail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference

Mason, my son, LOVED the idea of tending a fire ALL NIGHT LONG, but we all pooped out close to midnight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Yule] Reference

And the whole system is kind of tending toward movement instead of paralysis again.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Remarks At Campaign Finance Reform Meeting] Reference

I would say I probably spend less than 30 minutes a week "tending" it.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

Two days '"tending" had greatly mollified her sentiments toward the offending Glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faith Gartney's Girlhood] Reference

Occasionally slaves would convert in order to escape harsher labors such as tending the oars in the corsairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

That is what is called a tending grunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buck grunts] Reference

"tending" machinery, though their work is more directly dominated by general business considerations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference

Meanwhile, he's still tending unflappably to business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teflon Pop Star] Reference

Here I am tending the grave site of parents whom I iced for 12 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power Of ‘I Am Sorry’] Reference

One of them, Habiba Mualim, sat tending her weak and emaciated mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hurry-Up Offense] Reference

He wanted to investigate what the people he was tending in Chicago had that he did not have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack's Beliefs] Reference

Emil Manoud was tending his fruit trees on a warm spring day when his wife, Lara, came running.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Are Not Refugees'] Reference

But tending to your flower or veggie bed can also do damage -- especially to your back and joints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip Sheet] Reference

More than 20 million Americans are now hitched to a routine as relentless as tending to a newborn.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE KEYS TO CAREGIVING] Reference

He whiles his days away tending a few apple trees and some grapevines in the courtyard of his hideout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

I saw police tending to a guy with a head wound and I started looking around, talking to anybody that I could.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘This Can’t Be Real’] Reference

In her entire career tending to the psyches of young children, she scoffs, "I read a psych paper maybe twice.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnetic Tube] Reference

So Ahrendt quit and for six months took a job closer to his new home -- tending bar at the Turlock Bowl O Rama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finally, The Net Gets Real] Reference

The stalls are packed with women vendors in sarongs, tending piles of ginger, tiny shallots, garlic and other items.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel Briefs] Reference

A woman said her friends were "tending toward the militias" and wanted to know what the president would say to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off To The Culture War] Reference

On his job -- tending hogs and hauling manure on the family farm in Ohio -- he just doesn't get a chance to meet women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Me, Love My Hogs] Reference

Most players were poorly paid, so they spent their winters operating bowling alleys or tending bars-and sampling the suds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Stupendous Mystery] Reference

Pakula's always had a cool style, tending toward solemnity, but let's face it, "All the President's Men" this movie is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Brief 'Pelican'] Reference

She -- Julia Roberts -- is a ravishing, uneducated Oakland girl in short skirts who gets a job tending to a dying young man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pretty Woman Does A Weepie] Reference

Democrats have New York on their short list too, but seem to be tending toward Boston, the political base of the Kennedy clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: The Midterm Battle Begins] Reference

Hillary herself is a "bridge" dresser, says Val Cook, vice president of Saks-Jandel, tending to off-the-rack, midpriced lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Chic: Southern Comfort] Reference

Some devastated families "adopted" favorite rescue workers -- and local Oklahomans spent countless hours tending to their needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everyday Heroes] Reference

The little elephant became a "hand" on Bob's cattle ranch, tending to simple chores, riding the fences and shadowing Bob on his horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrating 'The Cowboy And His Elephant'] Reference

The chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, a distinguished Presbyterian who spent 20 years tending a flock in Hollywood, knew to speak slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Nation, Under... Who?] Reference