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'adopt' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'adopt' with 20 example sentences.


adopt verb

: choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

: take up and practice as one's own

: take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

: take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

: take into one's family

: put into dramatic form

: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own


  • Adopting a Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
  • I didn't know I was adopted until I was thirteen.
  • The couple decided to adopt an orphan.
  • My wife wanted to adopt a child.
  • We've decided to adopt a child.
  • In the 6th century, the Anglo-Saxons adopted Roman characters.
  • Germany adopted a social security system in the 1880's.
  • Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we dislike.
  • You will save time if you adopt this new procedure.
  • The government adopted strong measures to fight inflation.
  • Why don't English speakers like to adopt English sentences?
  • They adopted a new method of teaching English in that school.
  • The United Nations General Assembly adopted the cease-fire resolution.
  • Consider adopting an older pet.
  • The mother was cruel to her adopted son.
  • My plan was adopted by them.
  • We adopted an alternative method.
  • His proposals were adopted at the meeting.
  • The rich merchant adopted the boy and made him his heir.
  • We will adopt your method at our school.
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