6 sentences with “prone”

If vitamin C is lacking, the body becomes prone to colds, bronchitis, flu, dental problems, scurvy (an old sailor's disease).

Those with Behaviour Pattern C (the introverted and obsessive) are more prone to rheumatism, infections, allergies, skin diseases and even cancer due to immune suppression.

Societies prone to superstition and fanaticism are the most suitable breeding ground for any swindler promising golden plants, eternal youth or magic formulas to create men artificially.

Fortunately, the doctor on duty had seen him on television and knew he had ALS, so he was given medication for pneumonia, a disease to which people with ALS are very prone and which is often fatal.

According to a psychological study, those who tend to look more to the right when pensive are more likely to suffer from migraines, while those who generally look to the left are more prone to asthma attacks.

Bats must adopt the prone sleeping form because of the large size of their wings - disproportionate to their body - which would prevent them from fleeing quickly in case they were caught on the ground and during their sleep by a predatory animal.