Sentence examples for prone to breakdowns from inspiring English sources
Hoyle is still prone to breakdowns that he believes stem from his childhood.
But the decrepit electrical grid is fragile and prone to breakdowns, he was told.
Carrier's first home units were bulky and prone to breakdowns, but his competitors' were no better.
Williams's forehand, once prone to breakdowns, looks as smooth as ever.
Mechanical sweepers are expensive, prone to breakdowns and costly to repair.
It's glitzier than the one in the novel: usually less crowded, less prone to breakdowns, fewer aggressive fellow commuters.
"The underground is risky and prone to breakdown," he said.
Ebooks are expensive, cumbersome, prone to breakdown and, if wireless, as the Kindle recently showed, can have the content the readers thought they had "bought" deleted without notice.
No class of ship since the age of steam began has been more systematically prone to breakdown than supertankers; yet there is still no maritime jurisdiction strong enough to control their operation.
Tanks became available in appreciable numbers only in 1917, and even then were prone to breakdown, were easily knocked out by enemy fire, and advanced at little more than walking pace.
Yet, as Paul Polak, a Golden, CO-based social entrepreneur points out, rising diesel costs, motors that are prone to breakdown and the loss of government subsidies in many countries has created a need for cost-effective electric pumps.
