Sentence examples for prone that from inspiring English sources

If the location is earthquake prone, that has bearing on the design calculations and the construction.

He was sufficiently accident prone that a net was an imperfect protector.

At one point, Stuart ruminates on the vanity to which police investigators are prone, that they will be able to sift the evidence, figure out the game and win it with guile and intelligence.

At that age my son was exactly the same as the boy described, with the addition of being so accident prone that he had earned two rounds of sutures and at one point had to wear a bicycle helmet around the house.

"The worst thing to do would be if you put enough noise into the signal so that the system actually is not completely down, but it is so error prone that most of the packets that come through are unreadable," he explains.

The survey found — and Wilcox's research confirmed — that the more Mormon and the more same-­sex attracted a person is (on the Kinsey scale), the more prone that person is to depression and suicide.

We knew before we came here this area was flood-prone, that's why we built with concrete.

With Germany reeling from Alamein and Stalingrad, it was prone to that "wishfulness" and "yesmanship" that are the cardinal sins of counter-deception.

Artists are prone to that kind of thing.

"I'm not prone to that," Jackson said flatly.

Jose Mourinho is equally prone to that lurch to victimhood.