Example sentences for: prone

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

  • Lambert and colleagues determined that the immobilized postoperative patient was prone to atelectasis in the dependent lung.

  • Animals that feast on their own kind are more likely to eat harmful microbes than if they dined on a different species, and thus they are more prone to disease.

  • Your answer made sense, but I have a curve ball to throw you in a variation on the same theme: My sister, whom I love very much, is prone to lying.

  • Further, the weakening of traditional socio-cultural constraints in times of conflict makes the girls more prone to sexual abuse and exploitation and more likely to engage in high-risk sexual behaviour.

  • He is prone to foolish mistakes.


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