How to Use adoptive in a Sentence

adoptive

adjective

• In one television interview, even her adoptive mother condemned her.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2021
• But adoptive parents go with their birth mother to the obstetrician, receive her medical records and are in the delivery room.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2021
• Recently widowed, a professor tries to juggle a new love and an unexpected visit from his adoptive brother.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Previously, openly gay prospective foster and adoptive parents in most states were referred to other agencies.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• Interestingly, David had followed in his adoptive father's career path by becoming a cantor.
  — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2021
• Online, prospective adoptive parents negotiate with birth mothers directly via Craigslist ads.
  — Samantha M. Shapiro, Wired, 4 Mar. 2021
• Later, Toby says Ellie chose Kate as her baby's adoptive mother because Kate is unflappable.
  — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• Poteete said that while Porter’s House mostly serves Yell County families, the doors are open to members of any foster or adoptive family.
  — Sam Pierce, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2021
• Threatened with juvenile detention, she was coerced into surrendering her baby to an adoption agency that lied to adoptive parents about where the babies were from, and to birth mothers about where they were sent.
  — The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• The adoptive parents of the third Adams child who has filed suit declined to speak to the AP about the case.
  — Michael Rezendes, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
• Beth’s adoptive mother brought enough heart to warm the whole thing up.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
• Tammy Spence, the executive director of Second Shift, is an adoptive mom whose two oldest children were foster children.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 25 Mar. 2021
• In Athens more than 6,000 miles from his adoptive city of Houston, Rick Lowe is at home.
  — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Tressie King and her husband, Jamel, along with their adoptive son.
  — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Allen and Maria’s son, Earnest Young, moved to Virginia after the death of his adoptive parents and lived to the ripe old age of 83.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• So-young on board with the plan to hit the road and meet with potential adoptive parents.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
• At the time, Major Haley went by the same first name as his adoptive father, Bill.
  — Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• One of her favorite shops in her adoptive city is Boutique de France.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023
• The adoptive father was found not guilty by a jury in 2022, while the mother's charges were dismissed this year.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
• His adoptive father died of a heart attack when Cruz was 5.
  — Gerard Albert Iii, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
• The new law also changes the applicable age of an adoptive child from 7 to 10.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2021
• But when one’s adoptive home thrives, even as the home country flounders, a kind of survivor’s guilt kicks in.
  — Aatish Taseer, Time, 27 Apr. 2021
• Her [adoptive] father called her scar the Devil’s mark.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2022
• The photo shows one of the nannies who cared for her handing her to her new adoptive mother.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
• Many of my friends never knew that Beth was my adoptive daughter.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2024
• Mary Sisk was Mason Sisk’s adoptive mother and was one of the five people he is accused of killing.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 20 Sep. 2022
• Now, four years later, Zach and his wife are her adoptive parents.
  — Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
• The core idea of these stories was that orphans were fated to end up with their adoptive parents.
  — Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2022
• Catch up quick: For about 150 years, Indigenous children were forcibly sent to boarding schools, foster care and adoptive families.
  — Erin Alberty, Axios, 30 Aug. 2024
• The new film sees Yelena return to her adoptive father Alexei, feeling a sense of depression following the events of that movie and Hawkeye.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024