Sentence examples for prone to ask from inspiring English sources

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"If you didn't have all that disclosure," he said, "you would have been more prone to ask, 'Anything else?' I wish I had".

At away days and staff meetings in recent years, BBC drama commissioners have been prone to ask: "What stories do we want to tell?", directing attention towards compelling narratives.

Asked for an opinion – and local radio reporters keen on advancement are prone to ask politicians for their opinions – he may find he knows nothing of the "One Direction pot shame" involving poor Louis, because that's in the Mirror.

At a certain age (heading-into-­middle) and level of income (upper middle), Americans are prone to ask themselves, in the tradition of Peggy Lee, "Is That All There Is?" This tendency has spawned a subgenre of Seeker books — like Kathleen Norris's "Cloister Walk," Anne Lamott's "Traveling Mercies" and, of course, Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love".

When she felt blue, she was prone to ask questions she couldn't answer.

I'm getting older but I still just feel like I'm getting older, and I still just feel more prone to ask for it than give it.

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If your students are prone to asking, "When will we ever need to know this?", then maybe it's time for a dose of reality.

Both realms can make you feel like a stranger, trapped in an identity imposed from outside, prone to asking that fundamental question: What the hell am I doing here?

Part of it was that his self-touted record of accomplishment was unable to withstand close examination, but another part was that he was prone to asking journalists whether they'd heard the one about two peanuts walking down the street: "One of them was a salted".

She's also created characters who are marvelous sendups, including the hepped-up, chest-bumping players whose cliche-ridden macho attitude in interviews is skillfully mimicked by the actors, a television interviewer prone to asking embarrassing questions in the smug guise of journalistic courage and a talk-show host with the self-importance of a big fish in a small pond.

Belevitch dominated international conferences and was prone to asking searching questions of the presenters of papers, often causing them some discomfort.

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