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.
