How to Use adapt in a Sentence
adapt
verb- The movie was adapted from the book of the same title.
- The clock was adapted to run on batteries.
- When children go to a different school, it usually takes them a while to adapt.
- The camera has been adapted for underwater use.
- She has adapted herself to college life quite easily.
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Many Booker Prize winners go on to be adapted for screen.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024 -
Seals seem to be adapting to the changing climate by eating more warm-water fish, said Moon.
— Barbara Moran, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024 -
Where brands often fall short is not adapting quickly enough to these changing expectations.
— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 10 Dec. 2024 -
There’s a lot of talk about how California’s wine industry will have to adapt to climate change in the coming decades.
— Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2023 -
Mexico City is the most chameleon-like of cities, seemingly able to adapt to any sort of vacation, for any type of traveler.
— Juliet Izon, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2023 -
If movies are really losing the war for a new generation's eyeballs, think of Screenlife as an attempt to adapt to their viewing habits.
— A.a. Dowd, Chron, 20 Jan. 2023 -
These assemblages can be treated as graphs, and Teng’s task was to adapt the partitioning method from his graduate research to this new setting.
— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023 -
In these ways and more, The Hours asks how individuals adapt their personalities and desires to their times.
— Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023 -
Then, Miller and his team select a story idea, and the writer comes back with a short story that the episode’s final writer adapts into a screenplay by the episode’s final writer.
— Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2024 -
Cleary was able to adapt the recipe for her restaurant.
— Doc Louallen, ABC News, 15 May 2024 -
The show was adapted from a 2001 play by Lindsay-Abaire.
— Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024 -
It was adapted for the big screen in 2011 with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.
— Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024 -
Find a way to adapt your adventures to suit your needs, and the whole world will open up.
— Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2024 -
But the 49ers mostly do what their powerful core drives them to do, and the world adapts to them.
— Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 4 June 2024 -
The hard part will be reaching a compromise on how to adapt them.
— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Feb. 2023 -
Our job is to adapt, change, improve, and perform despite the challenges in the world.
— Brian Flood, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023 -
Old-money blonde is all about adapting the look to your unique cut and hair texture.
— Sophia Panych, Allure, 2 Nov. 2024 -
None of this to say that characters aren’t allowed to grow, adapt, or change.
— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024 -
So if the plan is to adapt the Battleworld plot, the thinking is that Kang could fill the Beyonder role.
— Brendan Morrow, The Week, 17 Feb. 2023 -
And 3) Be consistent and patient—your body needs time to adapt.
— Ben Court, Men's Health, 25 Apr. 2023 -
And Knox said as the state continues to see warmer winters, farmers will have to adapt.
— Meris Lutz, al, 6 June 2023 -
Knight takes a similar stance, adding that while the mandate may come as a shock to some, there’s plenty of time to adapt.
— Kayla Greaves, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023 -
Each goes on sheer and then adapts to your skin tone with transforming pigments.
— Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2024 -
The hope now is that this haven of green can offer crucial breathing space to a city ill adapted to heat.
— Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023 -
At the moment, the bird flu hasn't adapted to spread from person to person through the air like the seasonal flu.
— Amy Maxmen | Kff Health News, ABC News, 24 May 2024
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