The term comes from its tendency to be found in places such as barns.

It is thought to arise from the river's tendency to reduce in summer to a small stream.

This view may stem from our tendency to take only one community as the basis of observation.

The theater, he once wrote, saved him from "a very bad suicidal tendency."

Here, Stevenson departs from his tendency to focus on male characters almost exclusively.

Suffering from an incurable tendency to trust people in trouble and help lame dogs.

Our culture suffers from a tendency to book big name soloists and group attractions.

The name comes from the sick animals' tendency to rub against things and scrape off patches of wool.

That, too, derived from a tendency to interpret Soviet realities through American eyes.

The show is best when it steps out of the office, escaping from a tendency to rely on too many death-is-part-of-life jokes.