Example sentences for: apt

How can you use “apt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Indeed, the bellybutton might be an apt metaphor for Avedon's intimate, unsettling work.

  • And though it would later evolve into a kind of sport or game--a playful pastime in which braves showed off their flair for wisecracks and verbal whimsy, native nicknaming was still predicated on the idea that an apt name can, almost literally, capture a person's inner spirit.

  • It's an apt forum, for all that: another attempt to manufacture community out of a community-alienating, sprawl-inducing product, in this case, the Internet.

  • The subject was August Sander, a 1920s photographer who also set out to catalogue a large category of people, in his case Germans, but you could substitute Leibovitz for Sander and come out with an apt reading:

  • Big Bell Temple (Da Zhong Si) received its apt name in 1743, when the largest bronze bell in China was placed here.


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