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Example Sentences
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Mr. Wright suggests this is less a “crisis” or a “collapse” than a “prolonged decay,” which is apt.
If you admired a cushion or a book in her apartment, she was apt to insist you accept it as a gift.
A more apt and kind description might be “misguided” but, setting that aside, Mr. Swaim correctly notes that “in general, religious language fits badly in partisan spaces.”
Mr. Swaim’s analogy to the Japanese surrender in World War II is in some ways more apt than he allows.
But we were apt to catch sunfish and cat too small to keep.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
