Words similar to apt
Example sentences for: apt
How can you use “apt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
(Apt names, actually: a chuffing steam train starting or stopping really does sound like an excited horse; and the earliest railway carriages, like the earliest motorcars, looked very much like their horse-drawn counterparts, having been built by the same craftsmen.)
Considering the political climate the world over and the political individuals who make certain that into each life a little rain must fall, it would behoove all of us to become familiar with the quotations in this book, most of which seem apt at the moment:
Apt Pupil
But these are natural conversations, and it evidently takes so little to make people laugh--an apt metaphor seems to send them into paroxysms of laughter--that one need no longer wonder at the success of stand-up comedians who rarely say anything funny but focus on reminding their audiences of truisms.
The rite is liberating but also frightening: Remove a cork from a bottle so pressurized, and the contents are apt to explode.