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.
• 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

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024