prone

Definition:
1. Lying face downward.
2. Having a tendency (to); often used in combination.

Use 'prone' in a sentence:

• 1. Supine backbends: such as bridge pose, upward-facing bow, viparita dandasana are deeper back bends and create more intense sensations and experience than prone backbends.
• 2. Such patients are more prone to perioperative ischaemia, arrhythmias, and cardiovascular lability.
• 3. People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very prone to develop skin cancer.
• 4. He is prone to be/ being late.
• 5. When an organisation is shrinking, the best and most mobile workers are prone to leave voluntarily.
• 6. "We are increasingly building our homes in fire-prone ecosystems," says Dominik Kulakowski, adjunct professor of biology at Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Worcester, Massachusetts.
• 7. Since 1991, parents have been advised not to put their infants down to sleep in the prone position.
• 8. Having long been domesticated as ornamental pets, Silkies are prone to sickness if not taken care of properly.
• 9. They stepped over his prone body.
• 10. Research on Content-based Error Control Approaches over Error-prone Channels.
• 11. The guilt-prone ones shared more, even though they hadn't magically become more sympathetic to the other child's deprivation.
• 12. Bob slid from his chair and lay prone on the floor.
• 13. For all her experience as a television reporter, she was still prone to camera nerves.
• 14. Some men are in a prone position and some have bird or animal heads.
• 15. My mother is prone to headaches.
• 16. He is prone to lose his temper when people disagree with him.
• 17. Also, by their nature, business processes are prone to change.
• 18. The structure of the funds makes them especially prone to a run.
• 19. Traditionally communication power supply module test is difficult and prone to errors.
• 20. Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.
• 21. Apurinic sites are the proper substrates of the inducible error-prone repair activity.
• 22. Another nationwide concern is whether public funds from other agencies are going into construction in fire-prone districts.
• 23. Most mineral cosmetic brands are non-acnegenic, which means they won’t irritate acne-prone skin.
• 24. People living in the most deprived areas are four times more prone to die from avoidable causes than counterparts in more affluent places.
• 25. In the tropics, the valleys appear to be more favorable because they are less prone to dry out, they have less frost, and they have deeper soils.
• 26. The dark room and prone test finally was negative in all cases.
• 27. However, wireless mobile channel and IP network are highly prone to error.
• 28. Gibraltar is prone to a weather formation called the Levanter cloud.
• 29. Some people are prone to see only immediate interests.
• 30. Women and children are prone to become pitiable victims of war.
• 31. He was very prone to seasickness and already felt queasy.
• 32. As this year's crop of internet-security breaches shows, virtual pastures are just as prone to it as the grassy sort.
• 33. He was lying prone on the couch, fast asleep.
• 34. Working without a break makes you more prone to error.
• 35. Large aviation integrated structure part is prone to distortion during machining.
• 36. Kids are mostly prone to eat junk food.
• 37. This leaves fertile soil unprotected and prone to erosion.
• 38. Individuals are often tall and slender with an asthenic habitus ("marfanoid" look) and prone to osteoporosis.
• 39. These early versions were rudimentary, inaccurate, and prone to breakdown.
• 40. In Flannery's 1994 book called The Future Eaters, he sets out his thesis that human beings are a new kind of animal on the planet, and are in general, one prone to ruining ecosystems.
• 41. The new variants could improve rice production in flood-prone areas.
• 42. Old people's bones are more prone to fracture.
• 43. He's prone to flit between subjects with amazing ease.
• 44. For all her experience, she was still prone to nerves.
• 45. The victim lay prone without moving.
• 46. He was found lying in a prone position.
• 47. As they shorten, cells become more prone to disease and death.
• 48. It would be a striking finding if all of these unrelated languages had speakers more prone to interrupting each other.
• 49. Linear correlation analysis indicated that those patients whose living satisfaction degree was low were prone to athymia, anxietas, interpersonal relationship sensitiveness and somatization symptom.
• 50. Tired drivers were found to be particularly prone to ignore warning signs.
• 51. These plants are peculiarly prone to disease.
• 52. Sandy soils are prone to the leaching of nutrients and minerals and so tend to be nutritionally poor.
• 53. The test should identify which smokers are most prone to develop lung cancer.