Example Sentences

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Newsweek reports the video was trending on social-media platforms in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

But for Jordan, everything was trending upward that offseason.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

Still, I wanted to know how I could up my chances—and how I could generally understand if I was trending in the right direction before it’s too late.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2025

Infant mortality was trending downward until 2022, when it increased for the first time in 20 years by 3%.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2024

Up on the heights he turned left of Pera, and after half an hour's rapid movement was trending northward parallel with the Bosphorus, reaches of which were occasionally visible through cleftings of the mountainous shore.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis