How to Use predispose in a Sentence

predispose

verb

• Past experiences have predisposed her to distrust people.
• Some of us may even be predisposed to extreme acts of good.
  — Ben Paynter, Men's Health, 26 June 2023
• People are not predisposed at birth to buy high-powered guns and fire them at strangers.
  — Rod Rosenstein, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
• Foals born from obese mares are also predisposed to this same type of joint disease.
  — Jane Manfredi, Fortune Well, 25 July 2023
• People who eat a lot of junk food have other habits that predispose them to cancer, not the least of which is smoking.
  — NBC News, 15 Feb. 2018
• Some children just get a bigger share of the genes that predispose them to food allergies.
  — Kaitlin Bell, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024
• So, having an excess of the protein that forms the tangle appears to predispose nerve cells to dying.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2017
• In ancient times, people could have seen this as a sign the world would end if they were predisposed to thinking about such an apocalypse.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
• Researchers plan to expand the test to other genes that can predispose people to cancer.
  — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
• The study didn’t account for people predisposed to Alzheimer’s or other risk factors.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 28 July 2023
• This has been proven wrong, and could lead to a false sense of security that might predispose you to hyponatremia.
  — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 15 Apr. 2021
• First, the composition of the breast might predispose people to cancer.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2023
• This may be because some groups have genetic factors that predispose them to the illness.
  — Ritu Banerjee, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
• Each of these identities predisposed her to have a negative opinion of people who did not belong to the same group.
  — Yascha Mounk, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2015
• In Koyuk, the extreme wind pinned the riders, who were then predisposed to near-perpetual motion.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The same held true even among those who were genetically predisposed to the disease, which tends to run in families.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 5 June 2023
• As a result, the dirt and sweat buildup on their unwashed binder predisposes them to skin complications.
  — TIME, 8 May 2024
• Even some predisposed to support the protesters have raised questions about the message that masking sends.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• With her French name and heritage (one-eighth French from her father’s side), she was already predisposed to admiring France.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2019
• The brand has always been predisposed to challenging the norm, which has factored into its status as a cult favorite.
  — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• Are Danes predisposed to pessimistic thinking about where we’re headed?
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• The first step is a genetic mutation before birth that predisposes a child to the risk of developing this form of leukemia.
  — Meera Senthilingam and Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 May 2018
• Someone with a lot of variants predisposing them toward staying in school is far more likely to do so than someone with very few.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 July 2018
• The series even drives home the point that people can be predisposed to addiction via genetics when Kevin (Justin Hartley) is in rehab.
  — refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Of course, the chicken-and-egg question about all these findings is: Do differences in the brain predispose us to loneliness, or does loneliness rewire and shrink the brain?
  — Marta Zaraska, Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
• My entire life, then, I’ve been predisposed against Mexico City.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
• She's asked the court to delay any ruling until she's had the chance to have genetic testing done to see if her daughter could be predisposed to vaccine injuries.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2017
• This isn’t just the judgment of fastidious outsiders, predisposed to look askance at Malta.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• But as my colleague, Mr. Keeler, so astutely pointed out, most of the Bears’ production came against offenses that aren’t predisposed to the forward pass.
  — Sarah Kelly, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2024
• While any dog can smile, some breeds are genetically predisposed to do it more than others, according to veterinary behavior specialist Dr. Lore Haug.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024