Sentence examples for apt to be true from inspiring English sources
In light of the artist's subsequent romance with the found photograph, this anecdote is almost too apt to be true.
Like Gruyère and Sauvignon blanc, Tuscany in July, or the Archers and a good lie-in, it is a match made in English middle-class heaven that seems almost too apt to be true.
The same concern is also apt to be true for physical activity.
Some of these, such as measures of socioeconomic status or general health, are apt to be true confounders; that is, they appear to influence both exposure (whether moderate drinking or physical activity) and outcome (coronary heart disease).
But it is apt and it is funny, and it is, unfortunately, likely to be true.
The analogy is apt, with its familiar pattern of seduction, violation and abandonment – the offer too good to be true that "touched the G-spot of your wishes".
For a sentence to be true or false it must be semantically capable of truth and falsity or, as the current jargon has it, truth-apt.
Likewise, if factors associated with the risk of death were more apt to be detected in the sickest patients, the relative risks we report would overestimate the true associations but would not bias the overall mortality rates.
True, we are smarter -- but one smart primate is still apt to be dinner for a great cat, bear, or wolf pack.
