Sentence examples for prone to one from inspiring English sources

What's more, he said, even though "there are people who say 'I just don't like to see violent films, I like to see happy films,' " and "there are people who are prone to one or the other," it would be "hard to say one is a healthier form of escapism".

The unwavering faith in that big right arm that makes Jay Cutler so dangerous also leaves him prone to one or two bad throws a game, and that can be costly.

In small groups organized around a cause, for instance, members are prone to one-up one another; the most extreme tend to rise the most quickly, making the group look more radical than it is.

For speakers of stuttering varieties, introducing oneself to new people is an interactionally problematic act because of the popular belief amongst these speakers that one is prone to stutter on one's own name and thereby potentially positioned as incompetent interactants by supposedly 'fluent' speakers.

Le Guin can be polemical, prone to what one close friend calls "tirades" on questions she feels strongly about.

Plus, workers are prone to what one economist calls self-exploitation-overextending themselves on multiple gigs without a guaranteed hourly rate so that they often end up making less than minimum wage for all their efforts.

It was erected on Wednesday with religious pomp but little recognition from a government prone to whitewash one of Russia's darkest eras.

But Mr. Broderick is more prone to "buy one good knife and then you don't have to keep replacing it," she said.

Farrell is, in fact, the perfect human average, if you take as your test population the young men from recent Hornbiana: 30-ish, media-related job, prone to picking one woman, then hyper-fetishizing her for 300 pages under the guise of true love.

Clearly, there is a group of users that is a bit more prone to catching one of these than others.

In Johnson's portrayal of North Korea, the government is prone to doing one thing while publicly declaring that it's doing an entirely different thing.