The country has always been prone to severe flooding there is evidence of dykes going back several thousand years.
Mustn't grumble, though, because it won't kill us … unless we are prone to severe asthma.
People with the disease are prone to severe bouts of inflammation of the pancreas.
They led the American League in victories, with 96, yet they are prone to severe short-term offensive outages.
The middle of the state, where the tornadoes hit last week, is an unstable stretch prone to severe weather.
Then he springs to life and bounds away, leaving them to give chase on foot, in a plane and on the backs of camels prone to severe flatulence.
Until recently, Monmouth Beach was prone to severe flooding, the most extreme in modern memory resulting from the northeaster of December 1992.
Because Jack was severely malnourished and dehydrated, Dr. Daly said, his skin had become so thin that it tore easily, rendering him prone to severe infection and organ dysfunction.
His first internship, while an undergrad at Boston University, was in a psychiatric unit for violent patients prone to severe self-injury: one man pulled out his eyeball, another arrived with deep gashes in his arms.
Midwestern states are prone to severe windstorms and tornados.
Ceramics entirely withstand thermal cycling, while quartz-containing materials are prone to severe degradation.
