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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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