Sentence examples for become less apt from inspiring English sources

Since President Ernesto Zedillo took office in late 1994, the joke has become less apt, even though he, like all his predecessors for 70 years, belongs to the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRIInstitutional Revolutionary Party PRI

Now, though, as membership of the club has swollen to as many as 200 globally (with an aggregate valuation in excess of $600 billion), the "unicorn" epithet given to these billion-dollar companies on account of their rarity has become less apt and attracted considerable skepticism as to whether they can justify their sky-high price tags.

Though the world was lining up at the door, the family became less apt to open the property to members of the community as time went on: "It wasn't any longer a small-town community," Alma Tuchman said.

When a person reaches the conclusion that all or most dreams will only lead to disappointment, that person becomes less apt to dream overall.

Electronics have become less liable to explode.

As a result, Brooks argues, we have become less empathetic, and more apt to regard our relationships with others in the light of useful expediency.

But even for those of us who keep on going, bogged down by fear and helplessness our writing is apt to sag - to become less inventive, less playful, less exuberant.

She points out that, "children have become less emotionally expressive, less energetic, less talkative and verbally expressive, less humorous, less imaginative, less unconventional, less lively and passionate, less perceptive, less apt to connect seemingly irrelevant things, less synthesizing, and less likely to see things from a different angle".

Behavior might become less "average".

Courses would become less jammed.

We will become less intense.