How to Use adoptee in a Sentence

adoptee

noun

• For the first time, adoptees could learn the names of birth parents.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2018
• What does bug her are movies and shows in which adoptees are other than normal kids.
  — John Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• That slip of paper contains the name of the adoptee’s birth mother as well as the name they were given at birth.
  — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 31 May 2021
• Herrick spoke to The Times in 2021 about being an Asian adoptee raised by white parents.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• The first recorded placement of an African American adoptee in a white home was in 1948.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2020
• The only way to get around this is if an adoptee obtains a redacted copy of their adoption record.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 4 May 2021
• The paternity suit is the first to be brought by an overseas adoptee in South Korea.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2020
• The adoptee offerings don’t include traits that can be ordered a la carte.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• But the vast majority of adoptees did not pass through the state orphanages.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Many of Ranum’s clients are adoptees who want to learn more about their birth family and fill in gaps in their health history.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2019
• Joy Ride, a new film about an Asian American adoptee and her friends going to China, seemed primed to replay the trope.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 15 July 2023
• McPherson was raised as one of five adoptees in a white family home in Sturgis, South Dakota.
  — Catherine Chapman, NBC News, 6 June 2017
• Each member has a claim to fame: the first to help an adoptee find her biological mother, the first to identify a body, the first to find a killer’s full name.
  — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• If the law is passed, Connecticut would become the tenth state to have unrestricted access for adult adoptees.
  — Sarah Cody, courant.com, 2 June 2017
• But there just wasn’t as much awareness about the importance of preserving an adoptee’s culture.
  — The Cut, The Cut, 21 June 2018
• Sonali, for instance, an Indian adoptee in New Zealand, was born to a teenager in 1974.
  — Bhavya Dore, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2020
• Zune had written about his search on Facebook, and other adoptees had started to contact him for advice.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• In my life, my brother and I had an adoptee experience that was different from someone else right next to me.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2021
• The process, known in the adoptee community as coming out of the fog, can feel terrifying and unsettling.
  — Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2022
• Playing football is a dream Brown has pursued since watching his older brother, an adoptee from Haiti, excel in the sport in Texas.
  — J.c. Carnahan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 June 2018
• There’s a trans influencer, a snobbish adoptee, and a supermarket clerk trying to turn her life around.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
• That said, engaging with Korean adoptees is still fairly new for me.
  — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
• One adoptee was a 7-year-old cocker spaniel mix selected by an Escondido mom and her son Jan. 12.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2022
• But in letters to adoptees that were reviewed by The Times, the agency admitted that some of its paperwork had been invented.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• This meant talking about his identities as a gay, Asian American adoptee.
  — Ben Kesslen, NBC News, 20 June 2019
• Christy NaMee Eriksen will explore themes of loss and identity in a new body of work about her adolescent years as a Korean adoptee.
  — Danielle Duclos, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2020
• One of his most recent slob-adoptees is Princess Olympia of Greece, whose neat blonde iteration is an enviable example of the style.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023
• By this time, the sisters were using techniques developed by Moore and others to help adoptees try to find relatives in a vast universe of strangers' spit.
  — Libby Copeland, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2017
• Some people are deeply offended that an adoptee would write about their experience, but those things are not going to stop me.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• Even in legal adoptions, families aren't given the right picture about the adoptees' birth families.
  — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 May 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024