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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No, but there are the projects that many different directors have tried to adapt.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2024
• So, to adapt the famous Twitter hashtag around the Oscars in 2015, why #robotssowhite?
  — Mark Paterson, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2024
• Be certain those plants are adapted to your soils and your climate.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
• Fans of the books by author Tui T. Sutherland will no doubt rejoice, as this is now the second attempt to adapt the books for the screen.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Republican sponsors of HB 1 this week refused to name the companies that would have to adapt to the bill.
  — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• Wood and Williamson still don’t know if this change is happening too fast for hummingbirds to adapt.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• This isn't the first attempt to adapt the series into a live-action format.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• Every day for about a week, the mice wore the goggles for roughly 40 minutes to adapt to the environment.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• The push and pull between Jagger’s urge to adapt to the times and Richards’ desire to let the Stones be the Stones came to a head on perhaps more than any other album.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2023
• End of carousel The summer of 2023 saw Blue Ivy, a child born into the spotlight, embrace it and adapt to its demands in real time.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• The secret is that while the core vision remained, the execution would adapt to new thinking and new times.
  — Dave Sirulnick, Variety, 16 May 2023
• But this rendition – adapted from the Broadway show – has singing and dancing.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
• The organizations that do that, and do that well, will have success and continue to learn and adapt.
  — Amber Burton, Fortune, 12 May 2023
• Perhaps there wasn't a more successful way to adapt this story, but maybe it need not have been adapted.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• But Moscow has fixed many errors and adapted on the battlefield.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2023
• Victoria’s Secret, meanwhile, is trying to adapt to the present and future, which seems to belong to shapewear.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Hill is still around, still adapting, even if the reasons why have ostensibly changed.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• Who knew a movie adapted from parenting book Queen Bees and Wannabes would result in one of the most beloved movies of our generation?
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 12 May 2023
• The illusions are meant to test the perception of noise, but for the study, the team adapted them to measure people’s response to silence, instead.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024