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prone

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Prone \Prone\, a. [L. pronus, akin to Gr. ?, ?, Skr. pravana sloping, inclined, and also to L. pro forward, for. See Pro- .] Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. --Milton. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with ...

Usage examples of prone.

Kathy thought of celebrity as a subtle fluid, a universal element, like the phlogiston of the ancients, something spread evenly at creation through all the universe, but prone now to accrete, under specific conditions, around certain individuals and their careers.

The farmer, housewife, banker, merchant and laborer seem to be equally prone to the affliction and all who suffer have a great number of days rendered uncomfortable and unhappy by the presence of this most unpleasant affection.

Ryan was leaping up the first flight, booting down on the prone body of the first man and clutching at the corner pole of the banister, yanking himself up and around and grabbing the third man as he tottered forward on the rebound from the wall.

A glint of silver caught her attention, and Tia realized Brok had raised the sharp, dangerous Widowmaker high above her prone form.

Kingman Markland stretched a foot from his prone position and kicked at a rusting canteen.

Gately was kind of befogged and prone to misprision for well into his first year clean.

Longtusk and a few others, mastodonts in musth and so prone to irritability.

I wanted to warn him that Alice Bashford was not an ordinary widow, who vexes officers of trust companies with foolish questions and is prone to overdraw her account, so I left when he did.

Guys lay prone on the asphalt as the rest of the peloton bore down on them, and more riders fell.

For instance, one study has shown that depression increases platelet aggregation, which means that being depressed may make you more prone to arterial clotting and arterial aging.

Presley climbed to the summit of one of the hills--the highest-- that rose out of the canyon, from the crest of which he could see for thirty, fifty, sixty miles down the valley, and, filling his pipe, smoked lazily for upwards of an hour, his head empty of thought, allowing himself to succumb to a pleasant, gentle inanition, a little drowsy comfortable in his place, prone upon the ground, warmed just enough by such sunlight as filtered through the live-oaks, soothed by the good tobacco and the prolonged murmur of the spring and creek.

He seemed quite positive, and that precise diction of his, that prosecutorial inflection he was prone to, made arguing with him an unappealing prospect.

That was the beauty of the Beauty, as Cicero was prone to refer to Clodius, punning on his nickname.

The women on board had all undergone a little cellular reprofiling procedure to make suction tube use more convenient and less prone to slippage.

The prone forms of two Corthronos could be seen in front of sigil, their skinless bodies shining wetly in the crimson light.