Sentence examples for it is more apt from inspiring English sources

But even as retribution it is more apt to excite pity than to offer satisfaction.

That's an old, overused admonition, but sometimes it is more apt than at other times.

He muses openly about whether it is more apt to talk about "salvaging" the talks, "kick-starting" them or "breathing new life" into them.

In a 1964 profile of Mr. Buck in The New York Times, Gay Talese described him, plying his trade, as looking "like Charlton Heston in the chariot-racing scene in 'Ben-Hur.' " But with hindsight, it is more apt to liken Mr. Buck to Lee Marvin in the 1967 film "The Dirty Dozen".

It is more apt, of course, to discuss recycling with the Conservation Council than with the loquacious Conversation Council.

It's more apt to say that Beck is like Fox News' president, Roger Ailes.

Never have Erasmus's words that "war is sweet to those who have never tried it" been more apt.

Using the Barnes for introductory teaching is like starting a basic arithmetic course with calculus; it's more apt to daunt naïve minds than to develop them.

That's not why I painted them, but nevertheless it's more apt to get you somewhere than painting unknown Spanish people".

"If you offer a premium, it's more apt to get consumers to respond to a recall and helps to get those unsafe products out of somebody's home," Mr. Mays said.

Anastacia, who is revered for her strength in enduring hardship rather than her ability to fight it, was more apt to "strengthen black self-esteem, promote racial harmony and help instill national pride in Brazil," Mr. Burdick wrote.