Sentence Examples:
I have heart-disease, little girl, and I'm liable to topple off at any moment.
These earnest, hard-working young men with weak stomachs are always liable to bilious attacks.
Are you aware, woman, that you have made yourself liable to a heavy fine for trespass?
Traitors and sorcerers, as objects of special dread, were always liable to heavy penalties.
If you return here without reception or ovation, public opinion on other side liable to misunderstand.
Failure to report yourself without delay will render you liable to arrest as a Deserter.
Very large tusks are more liable to have coarse grained bony spaces near the center.
In some particulars, their industry was laudable; in some, it may be liable to censure.
In like manner, objects not easily distinguishable from others, were liable to the same condemnation.
When it happens to young subjects it is less liable to be mistaken for ascites.
On standing with the feet in thawing snow, many people are liable to incessant coughing.
Large portions of the empire are liable to inundation, often with little or no warning.
They were liable to molestation from wolves, close as they were to a thriving homestead.
Horses were liable to be stampeded and be lost or be stolen by the Indians.
They are liable to overdo everything, and even the stomach overdoes its acid forming function.
If it is too dry, the surface crumbles and the pot is liable to break.
This is like tinder and is liable to catch fire from burning particles of powder.
That Navajo's plumb crazy about you now, and he's liable to do you some mischief.
All kinds are liable to vary in tint or in the markings, sometimes in both.
Unless built in this manner, the vane is liable to twist off in a gale.
You have made of him a lazy good-for-nothing, liable to colds and ailments hitherto unknown.
It was known that the spores of anthrax were liable to be washed into rivers.
A common carrier is liable as an insurer of the goods entrusted to his care.
Conscription began at sixteen, and men remained liable to service to the age of forty.
For the casual reader, however, the often insisted upon details are liable to become wearisome
As an instrument, it is extremely troublesome to shoot with, and liable to constant derangement.
They are known to breeders as being liable to diseases from which others are free.
It must not be forgotten that one is always liable to misrepresent an opponent's case.
It is liable to tear away; and, in pressing the volume, it makes unseemly marks.
If found guilty on all, I might be liable to forty-five years in the penitentiary.
Porous slate is also liable to have moss and lichens grow upon and cover it.
Even those who have already voted are liable to sudden and devastating changes of opinion.
Any measure liable to hinder the achievement of this purpose should be waived or cancelled.
You have broken her all up, and she is liable to have convulsions and die.
It is still liable to be overwhelmed by the impetuosity of a cheap money campaign.
"Has it struck you that your attendance in the front seats is liable to misconception?"
If he resists in any manner, he is mutinous and is liable to the severest penalties.
They are sometimes very delightful, sometimes very depressing, but always liable to be misleading.
No sooner were the words spoken than it struck me they were liable to be misunderstood.
"Yes," she mused, "yes... but the heart's liable to break, too, after a while."
An attack of vertigo to which he was liable came on when he was on horseback.
She had a complication of diseases, besides being liable to swoons all her life.
Of course, this method is not applicable to oils or fats liable to oxidation on heating.
Infants and young children are much more liable to fits and convulsions than adults.
Other matters may be added, but must be true, and not liable to mislead.
If it annoys him, he's liable to pick it up and throw it at a wall!
No man living was less liable to be swayed by caprice than the speaker.
A joint, once sprained, is very liable to a repetition of the damage from slight force.
For infractions of 'regulations' by a ship or by her agents they were liable.
We are old and have our humors, I, with my gout, am liable to be peevish.
And I do hate mightily to do it, seeing what the consequences are liable to be.
A tenant may become liable for rent without any express agreement to that effect.
May a tenant become liable for rent without any express agreement to that effect?
Once a week is enough, more than that is liable to induce scouring and other disorders.
Nobody can forget that smuggled goods are liable to confiscation by proceedings in rem.
The cause of the abundance of sand on the soil surface is also liable to misinterpretation.
Three-ply wood is excellent, as though it is liable to warp it does not shrink perceptibly.
Doc was liable to say something that might nova Sol, for all I knew.
It is also as little liable to rust as gold, though indeed it readily gets tarnished.
The hops least liable to blight and mold contain the largest amount of sulfur.
Even a gentleman is liable to be hit on the head, when he is playing lacrosse.
Poetical allusions especially, are always liable to be mistaken, if not scanned with a poetic eye.
Occasionally one was caught, and he would of course be liable to punishment as a deserter.
The messenger was a very objectionable expedient: it was mean, and liable to detection.
That country was liable to be rendered quite impassable, had the rains set in.
I've noticed it's his night to howl only when hunters are liable to be abed.
The best and noblest things in human life are liable to be defiled and perverted.
The various theories hitherto proposed to account for this appendage are liable to grave objections.
He was liable to be imprisoned for the debt which he owed for the cargo.
It inclines to superficiality and is liable to degenerate into a mere detailed description of the person.
I only feel that at present the thing is liable to many errors and mischances.
Poorly nourished and badly clothed children are more liable to get it than are others.
An unskilled rider is liable to seriously injure both the horse and himself in jumping.
What, then, are the diseased operations to which the three classes of workmen are liable?
This characteristic dryness does not come, as one is liable to think, from ill-disguised insensibility.
According to the rights of belligerents my personal property is not liable to be confiscated.
General expressions are liable to an exaggeration from which specific allegations arc more frequently free.
Every one of this multitude was liable to instant death if found in French territory.
Once clear of the rocks, they are liable to no further molestation from land robbers.
Beer, porter, and stout are also liable to be contaminated by the presence of lead.
It must be remembered, however, that flannel is very liable to shrink from repeated washings.
I shall inform her that she has made herself liable to an action for libel.
The fashionable pronunciation of such words as immediate, ministerial, commodious, is liable to particular exceptions.
In such circumstances the display of another white flag would have been liable to misunderstanding.
May a tenant be liable for rent without being in possession of the leased premises?
The wisest councils are liable to be misled, especially in matters remote from their inspection.
The bottles are liable to burst, and cases of maiming are almost of daily occurrence.
If this is not kept sweet and clean, the inhabitants will be liable to disease.
We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading.
In such cases the soldiers were liable to find a portion of their rations escaping.
Punishments in a future state of being are out of sight, and are liable to be disbelieved.
A village organ should be of simple construction, containing no mechanism liable to sudden derangement.
We must, therefore, necessarily endeavor after some figurative sense, not liable to so insuperable an objection.
No Latin, he said, should be liable to be flogged even when serving in the army.
We are men, and liable to be deceived; but you are also men, and equally fallible.
The muscular coat is no more liable to paralysis or spasm than are the voluntary muscles.
Regular troops are far less liable to such excesses than inexperienced and undisciplined forces.
That which is liable to mistake cannot be infallible, cannot be a true standard of judgment.
"Remember that it is uncertain as to size and that the walls are liable to crumble."
The player is, however, liable for all the revokes he may have meanwhile made.