Sentence examples for prone like from inspiring English sources

This was a Louisiana beaver — huge, half asleep, prone like a walrus, a mound of cinnamon fur with nothing much to do but eat.

The kids loved grabbing the neck and nailing each other with the spray, or lying prone like soldiers and taking their chances with the random barrage.

The foot- and-ankle area is still the ballerina's primary trouble spot, prone, like a pitcher's shoulder or a running back's knees, to a whole syndrome of injuries: ligament tears, tendinitis, stress fractures, and bone spurs.

The gatefold shot is unfortunate only in that it portrays Drake the Artist – head and shoulders cloaked in pitch-black darkness, prone like some earnest John Donne student of metaphysical introspection.

Come up to a humid Sunday of late June— The day had the ominous feeling of such gray dense Sundays it was sour with foreboding as the vapors of paranoia floated in from Killala Bay and the ridgeback line of the Ox Mountains lay prone, like a crouched beast, its tone dark bluish in the haze, sombre, and watchful like a beast.

Come up to a humid Sunday of late June — The day had the ominous feeling of such gray dense Sundays — it was sour with foreboding — as the vapors of paranoia floated in from Killala Bay and the ridgeback line of the Ox Mountains lay prone, like a crouched beast, its tone dark bluish in the haze, sombre, and watchful like a beast.

Participants who had similar preferences regarding subcultural scenes (e.g., punk) and clothing (e.g., outlandish) were prone to like each other and expected to be liked by each other.

In cone snails, a hyper-variability-generating molecular mechanism relying upon an error prone-like DNA polymerase was suggested [ 11].

The parallels are implicit: Romney, confronted with people who are not like him, abroad or at home, offends vast swaths of people who might otherwise have been prone to like him, or, at the very least, to have been indifferent.

These results also suggest that the synthetic lethality of PARP and BRCA may be due to repair of nicks through an error prone, NHEJ-like mechanism that is active when both PARP and HR pathways are blocked.

Consider the personal misery for those affected, even in areas not traditionally flood-prone like Manchester and Leeds.