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How to use propensity for in a sentence

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The history of the Bank provides ample testimony to its propensity for torpidity.
Attachment theory emphasizes the propensity for human beings to make and maintain powerful affectional bonds.
Many of us lack the leisure or propensity for deep, inquiring relationships with our aging parents.
It would be misleading to assert that a woodwind trio has a propensity for entertaining music rather than solid serious stuff.
Both saphenous veins are clinically important because of their propensity for becoming varicosed.
He's just incredibly ignorant and ill-informed, with a propensity for sweeping unresearched generalisations.
For whatever reason, I believe band possesses this propensity for rocking out.
Given its propensity for recording literal truth, the camera seems at odds with the interpretive truth of the art on the walls.
The narcos' propensity for gold-plated toilets and loud parties has not endeared them to their neighbors in the fashionable districts.
Andrea Seppi, a creative photographer from Germany, combines a trigger-happy attitude with propensity for perfection.
It seems unlikely that overnight my son has developed the male propensity for uncommunicativeness.
The connection between propensity for risk-taking behaviors and body art is supported by previous research, primarily with college age subjects.
Combine these qualities of self-denial and there is a propensity for deep unhappiness.
Today his reputation as a composer is only rivalled by his propensity for writing musical dramas of an unparalleled length.
Despite his exemplary crooning ability and his propensity for loungey arrangements, his was never an easy career to sum up.
With their propensity for schoolboy humour and scatology, they deal with the subject by uproarious laughter.
The Brits, with their propensity for schoolboy humour and scatology, deal with the subject by uproarious laughter.
Given my propensity for frittering it away, it's better that I have a legal obligation to pay it to her.
The propensity for people enriched by capital gains to borrow and spend is gradually diminishing.
Furthermore, the model postulates that individuals vary in their propensity for both excitation and inhibition.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I declare, if she hasn't redeveloped her propensity for scudding, Blanchie!
Her greatest weakness was a propensity for smashing dishes, and when reprimanded she would threaten to take her traps and skidoo.
Pontellier and her possible propensity for taking young men seriously was apparently forgotten.
One thinks, for example, of the long-influential moral rationalism of a John Rawls, with its propensity for wholly ahistorical ratiocination.
Are you never able to restrain your propensity for making sport?
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