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.
• Cleary was able to adapt the recipe for her restaurant.
  — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 15 May 2024
• The search is currently on for a writer to adapt the book for the screen.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
• The media continues to have to adapt to the new Hong Kong.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Some actions might help both to adapt to climate change and to slow it.
  — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2022
• And the future belongs to those who are willing to adapt, learn, and lead.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
• 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
• One way for mobile species to adapt to climate change is to move north. ...
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 11 May 2022
• The author is set to adapt Rachel Aviv’s New Yorker story of the same name.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
• But day to day, teachers are learning to adapt in their own ways.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2022
• The domino effect is that Sven, who is running the show VFX-wise, will have to adapt.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
• The hard part will be reaching a compromise on how to adapt them.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Feb. 2023
• The home is designed to adapt to daily life rather than just contain it.
  — New Atlas, 31 May 2025
• Frankly, the Jazz also just have to adapt more quickly to hot players.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
• Our job is to adapt, change, improve, and perform despite the challenges in the world.
  — Brian Flood, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Golden Gate plans to adapt and sequence the lectures for the degrees.
  — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
• But is your business ready to adapt, or just playing catch up?
  — Vu Hoang, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• Yes, there's his ability to adapt and absorb and the phrasing of songs.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 May 2022
• 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
• This article has been adapted from Ilana Kurshan’s forthcoming memoir, Children of the Book.
  — Ilana Kurshan, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
• Because the technology powering this deception is evolving quickly, HR leaders must adapt to keep fraud out of the hiring process.
  — Casey Marquette, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025