Sentence examples for prone victim from inspiring English sources

Witnesses said two men had gotten out and attacked the prone victim with large bladed weapons.

It consists of two upright posts surmounted by a crossbeam and grooved so as to guide an oblique-edged knife, the back of which is heavily weighted to make it fall forcefully upon (and slice through) the neck of a prone victim.

So the final sentence lands like a steel-toed kick in the stomach to an already prone victim: "With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon".

CTE is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder caused by repeated blows to the head that in effect rots the brain and leaves the victim prone to dementia, memory loss, aggression, confusion, and depression.

Across one big wall she spreads the painting's famous actors, isolated on cutout wood panels: the screaming horse, shrieking victims, prone bodies and the woman straining from the window, candle in hand, as well as a cow's skull from a wartime Picasso still life.

The open source community is vociferous and prone to throw victims on the fires of their collective wrath.

Child brides are also prone to be victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Since females are generally more prone to becoming victims of sexual violence, the Lara Logan sexual assault (the term itself even sounds deceptively benign) raises a radically discomfiting question: Is it "responsible" for women to choose to report in war zones?

47 Significantly more women were prone to be victims of domestic violence than men.

peripheral neuropathy, which is characterized by insensate feet, therefore making victims prone to develop "silent" bone stress injuries (Chantelau et al. 2007).

They are often without defences once they become orphans - abandoned and alone with no one taking care of them and, therefore, prone to becoming victims of abuse, violence, trafficking and other types of exploitation.