"the shoreward tendency of the current"
"the trend of the stock market"

"the river takes a southern course"
"the northeastern trend of the coast"

"not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"
"a broad movement of the electorate to the right"

"leather is the latest vogue"
"he followed current trends"
"the 1920s had a style of their own"

"The car cut to the left at the intersection"
"The motorbike veered to the right"