Synonym: flat, horizontal, inclined, level, liable, prostrate, ready, willing. Antonym: supine. Similar words: pronounce, pronunciation, environmental protection, iron, rondo, wrong, irony, bear on. Meaning: [prəʊn] adj. 1. lying face downward 2. having a tendency (to); often used in combination.
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121. And journalism, which is more prone to collective examination of conscience than most professions, is already focusing on these problems.
122. This benefit is, rather, an income supplement to buffer the drops in income that the self-employed are prone to.
123. Delicate arrangements are required to maintain the controlled gas leak and these are prone to wear and maintenance problems.
124. But not all workers are dependent and prone to inner-directed aggression or to schizoid withdrawal.
125. In the previous chapter it was pointed out that testimony in cattle-stealing cases was particularly prone to stereotyped ritual delivery.
126. Two university psychology professors say they have scientific evidence that southerners are more prone to violence than northerners.
127. But, like all professionals, Fisher is prone to the odd upset.
128. The breed is prone to occasional stomach troubles and bouts of enteritis so a good-quality diet is essential.
129. The M-forty through Oxfordshire is notoriously prone to fog ... campaigners say overhead lighting is urgently needed to save lives.
130. It is prone to generate new social divisions of a hierarchical kind based on political or bureaucratic position.
131. Uncle Michael was prone to a certain degree of sweetness, at least with me[Sentencedict.com], and could be coaxed into compliance.
132. Double-flowered petunias are also prone to rotting in wet summers.
133. They are almost three times as prone to nervous breakdowns.
134. Beard said federal officials had offered three years ago to buy out the whole town because it is prone to flooding.
135. Students prone to violence are what everyone, rich and poor, wants to escape.
136. But he did, as he played the beam over her prone body.
137. It delays the process and, nomatterhow good the system, is always prone to quirks.
138. The decision to wage an all-out war against inflation in a country that is not prone to inflation risks disaster.
139. Piquantly enough, Foodie-ism is as prone to the whims and shifts of favour as the fashion industry itself.
140. Women seem to be currently more prone to seek longer-term close relationships with other women than men are with other men.
141. Humans have a vestigial appendix which is so poorly developed that it is prone to infection.
142. External designs are easiest to work on but most prone to interference from mud and water.
143. I worry that the necessary measures may radicalise the working class which is, of course, the sector most prone to unemployment.
144. Flat ground and the slopes of the Marne valley are particularly prone to frost.
145. But its lack of interest in theory makes it prone to overlook biases in this area.
146. It suppresses the immune system so that infected people are prone to almost any infection that happens to come their way.
147. In July 1990 a television advertisement by the Cot Death Association advised against placing infants to sleep prone.
148. One is prone to dousing the headlights accidentally while signaling.
149. Our door gunners were firing over the prone grunts at phantoms in the trees.
150. Social climbers are prone to telling lies; over- ambitious, greedy, and hedonistic people are more likely to lack honesty and truthfulness. Dr T.P.Chia
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