Sentence examples for apt to drop from inspiring English sources

Artists' voices are apt to drop in tone when she is mentioned.

They stay here for the same reason that they are more apt to drop out here — needing to work to support themselves and their families.

But in speaking of the stage of the river to-day, at a given point, the captain was pretty apt to drop in a little remark about this being the first time he had seen the water so high or so low at that particular point for forty-nine yeand; anownow and then he would mention Island so and so, and follow it, in parentheses, with some such observation as "disappeared in 1807, if I remember rightly".

"The poverty rate among children is not apt to drop very sharply, and large numbers of children will almost certainly be poor for some years to come," Congressional Budget Office Director Rudolph G. Penner told the House Ways and Means Committee on May 22. Beaten as a child, Gladys Vallanilla ran away at 12 from her mother to live on the hard, cold streets in Hartford, Conn.

And, with access to the privacy of latrines, girls are less apt to drop out of school when they reach adolescence.

However, due to a complex interaction of behavioral, cultural and societal factors, African-American women are less likely to participate in traditional weight loss programs, more apt to drop out, and lose less weight than white women [ 37, 38].

Chicago's suburbs are apt to swing.

Bohnen would write a sarcastic letter to Truman, informing him that people would be debating the decision to drop the bomb for 100 years "and posterity is quite apt to be a little rough".

I remember when my dad told me, "Son, I've got ten children, you're one of them, I want you to drop out of school because you seem to be more apt than all the rest of my children.

Revenues continue to drop.

Compensation began to drop.