Sentence examples for were apt to from inspiring English sources

Presbyterians were apt to be Patriots, Anglicans often Tories.

As a result, you were apt to find strangers more threatening than if you had left.

They caused the Bureau concern, because they were apt to give things away.

They were apt to believe that their talents and interests could be assessed only subjectively.

If the home team was ahead, those supplied were apt to be old and lifeless.

They were apt to look on their fathers as something of a joke or a threat".

Progress, however, is apt to come slowly.

Chicago's suburbs are apt to swing.

It's apt to cook up resentment.

Drive dangerously, you're apt to injure others; ride dangerously, I'm apt to injure myself.

When effort is invisible it is apt to be undervalued.