Sentence examples for apt to pick a from inspiring English sources

When a team of researchers pitted two male Hermann's tortoises against each other, the one with more dark splotches on his shell was more apt to pick a fight.

"I like that stuff, personally, but if you see a story on the flu epidemic of 1919, you might be less apt to pick that up than an interview with Ken Burns," she said.

Thus, those apt to pick up the cigarette habit can do so in a far healthier way and also not subject others to second-hand smoke.

We have learned that people are apt to pick up (purportedly) factual information stated or implied as part of a fictional story's background.

Second-generation Jews, he wrote, "are apt to pick up the fashionable vices of their adopted country.

The commodity fund's investment management team is more apt to pick commodities that will make you money.

The blockbuster Broadway musical "Hamilton" served as a surprisingly apt soundtrack to the Libertarian Convention this weekend, where party faithful gathered in Orlando to pick a  presidential ticket.

But to pick a nose?

There's no time more apt than year 9 to pick up a play about mixed-up lovers and relationship dramas, when many students are coupling up and falling out themselves.

He is more apt to impulsively pick up the phone to call a lower-level commissioner than agree to a scheduled briefing with a department head.

Now a junior, Dorsey will still occasionally utilize a flare pass to his running backs, though he is more apt to be picking apart secondaries.