Synonym: acute, appropriate, astute, bright, clever, discerning, fitting, keen, likely, proper, sharp, shrewd, smart, suitable. Similar words: adapt, capture, adapt to, captain, chapter, aptitude, adaptive, adaptable. Meaning: [æpt] adj. 1. at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant 2. mentally quick and resourceful 3. (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward 4. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence.
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(61) But you know how every dream is apt to follow its own course.
(62) Together they plan for a future in New York City with more exotic women than one is apt to find in Indiana.
(63) A euphemism is most apt to be noticed if it is new.
(64) It looked like the circus leaving town, which may be an apt analogy.
(65) The album cover, with the father of 12-tone music playing Ping-Pong, is an apt symbolic touch.
(66) When a moving object catches their attention, babies are apt to focus on it.
(67) Black children from middle-class or affluent families, they say, are more apt to adopt what is commonly called black slang.
(68) Fires smouldered in the grates of sitting-rooms, but the passages and bedrooms at Kinton were apt to be piercingly cold.
(69) Many problems have a clear local manifestation; local initiative and self-help must consequently provide the most apt solutions.
(70) Clients are apt to minimise numbers of assignments, whilst headhunters maximise them, and neither are willing to divulge exact figures.
(71) For once, the optical illusion experienced by sailors leaving port seemed apt.
(72) It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be, and in its terrible way it was apt.
(73) Although colorful, active, and good feeders,(http://sentencedict.com/apt.html) they are apt to be a little quarrelsome.
(74) Consequently, the talk at the sand table or the block area is more apt to be teacher-directed.
(75) In the future, falling male earnings are apt to be mirrored in falling household incomes.
(76) An excellent oxygenating plant, but apt to get out of control in large or natural ponds.
(77) These are the books our young children are most apt to encounter when they read on their own.
(78) At the 1988 Lambeth Conference the Bishop of Hyderabad told an apt and amusing story about this.
(79) Treloar has described a very apt demonstration of the transition.
(80) In the evenings, when I am apt to recede to a withdrawn vacancy, she will come to stroke my hand.
(81) In this situation professionals are most apt to allow their normal reserve about commerce to lapse, and to give meaningful information.
(82) For many battered women the unpredictable treachery of a deadly serpent is an apt characterization of the abusive actions of their husbands.
(83) He has a number, many quite apt, which he is liable to produce to lend substance to his conversation.
(84) It was, however, an apt symbol for the abrupt end of her government's honeymoon.
(85) Some people are very apt to dump all old people together.
(86) In the next few days,[sentencedict.com] he appeared to become a less apt pupil.
(87) Yet in a deeper sense the phrase is apt for the new millennium.
(88) Choose a still, windless day to climb it, otherwise the name is likely to prove very apt!
(89) In dealing with anorexia nervosa we are dealing with metaphor - sometimes a startlingly apt form of metaphor.
(90) One of these was apt to be Catholic Social Services.