1590s, "to run or bend in a certain direction" (of rivers, coasts, etc.), from Middle English trenden "to roll about, turn, revolve," from Old English trendan, from Proto-Germanic *trandijanan (cf. Old English trinde "round lump, ball," Old Frisian trind, Middle Low German trint "round," Middle Low German trent "ring, boundary," Dutch trent "circumference," Danish trind "round"); origin and connections outside Germanic uncertain. Sense of "have a general tendency" (used of events, opinions, etc.) is first recorded 1863, from the nautical sense. Related: Trended; trending.

Example Sentences for trending

But, trending to the right, we got into Canonbury, of which there are only Travellers' Tales.

Better than all, the heavy gold seemed to be trending in their direction.

They had not had the least idea of the way Townsend's talk was trending.

We have a way of trending on problematical subjects, have we not?

She knew, of course, how matters were trending, and that she had only to hold up a finger.

There is a, deep ravine here, trending to the southeast, and easily defended.

Is it thither that the human drift in all its totality is trending?

He knew quite well whither his small brother's questions were trending.

And this ultimate towards which his life was trending was inseparably bound up with that of the girl.

The Samoan Group consists of five islands, trending from west by north to east by south.

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