Sentences with adapt
a·dapt
A a - The world will be different, and we will have to be prepared to adapt to the change. [VERB + to]
- Shelves were built to adapt the library for use as an office. [VERB noun]
- Director Francesco Marchione has launched a Kickstarter campaign to adapt a short story by David Foster Wallace into a 25-minute film.
- When children go to a different school, it usually takes them a while to adapt.
- The scriptwriter helped him to adapt his novel for the screen. [VERB noun]
- To adapt a play for use in schools
- The clock was adapted to run on batteries.
- The movie was adapted from the book of the same title.
- They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- To adapt easily to all circumstances.
- She has adapted herself to college life quite easily.
- Dogs adapt and people adapt to how to raise dogs correctly.
- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
- Individuals adapting to their environment must also, therefore.
- Adapt implies a modifying so as to suit new conditions and suggests flexibility [to adapt oneself to a new environment]; adjust describes the bringing of things into proper relation through the use of skill or judgment [to adjust brakes, to adjust differences]; accommodate implies a subordinating of one thing to the needs of another and suggests concession or compromise [he accommodated his walk to the halting steps of his friend]; conform means to bring or act in harmony with some standard pattern, principle, etc. [to conform to specifications]