Sentence examples for you were apt from inspiring English sources

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

If you were a boy growing up in the late '50s or early '60s, the Playboy centerfold pages were a breath-catching revelation: they were the first -- and for years, most likely the only -- glimpse you were apt to get of an actual naked female.

On the killing-beds you were apt to be covered with blood, and it would freeze solid; if you leaned against a pillar, you would freeze to that, and if you put your hand upon the blade of your knife, you would run a chance of leaving your skin on it.

You had to wait until the artillery shelling stopped, but you couldn't leave too soon or you were apt to be cut down by a helicopter gunship that was flying overhead.

And you're apt to see just about everything.

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

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else".

Ask nicely and you're apt to get that extra bag of pretzels.

"People like you are apt to give too much importance to scandal," she tells him.

You're apt to wind up with sporadic scribbles that are hard to parse, upon review.

But without it, you're apt to be blindsided by change.