How to Use apt in a Sentence

apt

adjective
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  • Now that was the most apt description for the Sounders.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The fastest growing and largest (to 25–35 ft. tall) of the redbuds, and the most apt to take tree form.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Her fans, on the other hand, were less apt to let the body shaming slide.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Well Is the Best Revenge (an apt motto for the couple).
    — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 7 Dec. 2022
  • And even though that was fourteen years ago, the numbers are still apt.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In this sense, a gold rush is an apt metaphor for those heady days of the early social web.
    — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
  • The seventh of the seven games served as a sadly apt bookend to the Houston loss.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • How apt the lyrics are for the era of online anonymity and cyber-courtship.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • More downtown routes w traffic and apt drop offs a pain.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Pack your sweaters and get excited for some of these ski towns apt for non-skiers.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Yep — in this respect: coaches are far more apt to go for it on fourth down.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • People put those out there and others are apt to make the app available for free.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The beer choice is apt, since the event occurs during the cold and dreary month of February.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The song, and the dance, felt apt: Madonna may have dodged fate only very recently.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Don’t Look Up would be an apt film to see in that situation.
    — Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • This shot will definitely get the lungs, and is apt to also wreck the shoulder blade and some of the spine as well.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • An apt answer came from Rose Lavelle, the Reign’s world-class midfielder.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Even the blurring is apt, for a situation very much in flux.
    — Time, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In a larger context, small plants are apt to be swallowed up.
    — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Until Donald retires, the Rams are apt to try to build this position group through the draft.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • When the ground shifts under our feet, its vibrations are apt to diffuse.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2023
  • At a time of great troubles in the world one year after her passing, today this quote of hers seems more apt than ever.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Sanders, a Pro Football Hall of Famer, seems to be an apt choice to lead players in such an environment.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Why, argyle, of course — that preppy pattern found on socks and sweaters, and an apt name for the latest kooky spy caper from Matthew Vaughn.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • At Florida, the former Gainesville high school star was as apt to make a highlight-reel play as a head-scratching one.
    — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The show took place at Capitale, a party venue on Bowery, which feels apt for the bedazzled pooch.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Pink Sand Beach is an apt name for the three-mile stretch that gets its signature hue from the microscopic coral insects that wash ashore.
    — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Some people who use generative AI are apt to take a one-and-done approach.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This influx causes polar water to become less salty, less dense, and thus less apt to sink.
    — Stephen Robert Miller, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The cross-sport comparison may be more apt than the surface would indicate.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 31 Dec. 2022

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