Sentence examples for would be prone to from inspiring English sources

You would be prone to osteoporosis.

Some boys believed a woman in power would be prone to a "nervous breakdown".

The reality is that the NHS would be prone to legal challenge whatever the changes contained within the bill.

But they added that such raw data, to be useful, would have to be adjusted to reflect factors like whether a doctor treated significantly sicker patients who would be prone to complications.

Detractors on the left and the right are worried that a list of terror suspects used to curtail individual liberties would be prone to abuse and inadequate constitutional safeguards.

Manuel said he remained dumbfounded why Perez had struggled, but the Mets, when they agreed to pay him $36 million over three seasons, knew he would be prone to lapses like this, when he could look helpless on the mound.

A citizens' watchdog group warned yesterday that Atlantic City, the Meadowlands, Cape May, Long Beach Island and the Delaware Bay shore could be submerged and that other areas would be prone to chronic flooding by 2100 if global warming continued at its current pace and sea levels rose by two to four feet.

"You'll be a lot happier when I'm dead," he'd be prone to say at totally inappropriate times.

(I'm sure I'd be prone to it myself, which is why I like having a computer program that looks at all the polls and has consistent rules by which it does so).

Sometimes there's good reason: a new study suggests that if human lungs were designed to optimally perform their most important task--exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and air--they'd be prone to disaster.

Not even the most germ-phobic among us would mind mashing knuckles with another; even with those types who look like they'd be prone to bypass the sink after using the toilet.