"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tendency sustantivo

tendency + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
tendency makes • tendency leads • tendency causes • tendency exists • tendency seems • ...
verbo + tendency
Kolokacji: 9
show a tendency • display tendencies • exhibit tendencies • represent tendencies • tendency is seen • ...
adjetivo + tendency
Kolokacji: 127
natural tendency • strong tendency • suicidal tendency • general tendency • violent tendency • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(2) strong, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
(8) unfortunate, regrettable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) homosexual, lesbian
Kolokacji: 2
(16) marked, pronounced
Kolokacji: 2
(18) genetic, familial
Kolokacji: 2
(19) disturbing, distressing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) nationalist, nationalistic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) alarming, nasty, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 3
(23) artistic, stylistic, literary
Kolokacji: 3
1. artistic tendency = artystyczna skłonność artistic tendency
2. stylistic tendency = stylistyczna tendencja stylistic tendency
3. literary tendency = literacka tendencja literary tendency
  • As a poet, he shows a personal tone, due to his military and diplomatic obligations, out of Spain and its literary tendencies.
  • I'm telling you this because your peacetime record shows certain literary tendencies.
  • She liked his literary tendencies, but had reason to detest official Paul Prys, as we shall see later.
  • She evinced a literary tendency at the age of seven, when she began a diary, which she continued almost uninterruptedly until her death.
  • There is, of course, a modern literary tendency to write unsparing, unsentimental and unapologetic memoirs, and "The Cap" fits in nicely.
  • In private life Mackenzie was a cultivated and learned gentleman with literary tendencies.
  • Speaking against social realism in 'The Author as Producer', he identifies a work's 'political tendency' and its 'literary tendency'.
  • While Fortey has corrected some of Gould's scientific conclusions, he has also borrowed some of his literary tendencies.
  • He has negative feelings about this literary tendency.
  • In fact, Sab could be considered an early example of negrismo, a literary tendency when white creole authors depicted black people, usually with a favorable stance.
(24) sadistic, masochistic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) fascist, Communist
Kolokacji: 2
(30) latent, unhealthy
Kolokacji: 2
(31) inevitable, fatal
Kolokacji: 2
(34) overwhelming, high
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tendency
Kolokacji: 12
for one's tendency • of tendencies • in one's tendency • about one's tendency • with a tendency • ...

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