Sentence examples for be as apt from inspiring English sources

BRAIN FUNCTION -- "Use it or lose it" seems to be as apt a motto for the brain as it is for muscles.

To say that they are in love with each other would not be as apt as to say simply that they are engaged in living.

The production cost would be $416,660 at the Government's official rate for the internationally worthless ruble, which lately seems to be as apt a metaphor for Soviet fecklessness in the face of modern change as Chekhov's orchard is.

But with or without the catalog, they will be quietly seduced -- "sedated" might be as apt a word -- by the sheer comfort of almost everything that is on view.

Social video browsing app ShowYou has often been referred to as something like a "Flipboard for video content," but now, that comparison may no longer be as apt.

We can see that while anthropologists may be acutely aware, analytically and theoretically, of the active and performative power of communicative and linguistic practices (in legally binding verbal contracts, or in spoken vows, for example), we may not be as apt to thoroughly consider how our own words translate into accountability and action.

Both are as apt to be found on the floor as standing up at a tilt.

It was as apt, as packed a comment as a correspondent might make from Copenhagen.

The author's public-debt/business-debt parallel is as apt now as it was then.

He was as apt to hang out with the messengers as with the poetry editor.

Its title is as apt a motto for his cooking as anyone could coin.