Sentence examples similar to said prone from inspiring English sources

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She is, she says, prone to panic.

The work revealed an all but oxymoronic sensibility (regionalist-formalist, you could say), prone to a cantankerousness that sometimes seemed endemic in his personality.

Not always a team player they say, prone to stubbornness on occasion and with a tendency sometimes to compromise and 'fix' things in the short term thus storing up long-term trouble for the future.

For a start, Lee – a man who was, shall we say, prone to acting on a whim – was nowhere to be found at stage time, and a search party had to be sent out (he was, if memory serves, found playing pool in a pub up the road).

Maybe the mind is a little, shall we say, prone to exaggeration?

Her Brutus banters with a servant, wrestles with his conscience and howls at fate with an anguished believability that lets this Brutus be a complex, changeable creature rather than merely defining him as, say, prone to vanity over his importance or some other such "take" on the role.

Property managers said areas prone to natural disasters like floods and hurricanes are also affected.

"The stations had been kind of neglected," said Ms. Guthrie, prone to mothering her employees.

Bridges, they said, are prone to a variety of problems, and some are hard to spot.

He was "rigorous to the point of being a bore," Pritula said, and prone to a stubborn and inflexible precision that made him a trying conversationalist but a brilliant reporter.

People who are high in negative emotions regardless of where they fall on the other four personality dimensions, Friesen said, are prone to making prevention-focused goals.

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