How to Use adapted in a Sentence

adapted

adjective
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  • Read the review here, and an adapted excerpt from the book here.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The fact that Scorsese and Eric Roth’s adapted screenplay didn’t get a look-in.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Offer them a chance to co-create the adapted workplace.
    — Eric Mosley, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Romeo & Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous, most beloved, and most adapted plays.
    — Valentina Valentini, Teen Vogue, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The adapted iPad includes a black cover with buttons to type in braille toward the top and a line of braille underneath.
    — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2018
  • An adapted screenplay nom for Hunter will depend on the overall reaction to the film.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Martinez now walks on prosthetic legs, drives an adapted car, hunts and now surfs.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • Better still, meet a variety of animals well adapted for cold: birds of prey, huskies and wolves.
    — Web Behrens, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • In this adapted excerpt, Adams offers six easy, beautiful ways to welcome your next guests the wabi-sabi way.
    — Julie Pointer Adams, Bon Appetit, 13 June 2017
  • Reservations for a December stay in the adapted cave in Boulder, Utah, sold out in six minutes on Dec. 3.
    — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Hancock spent most of his stay sitting and sleeping inside an adapted water tank hauled up on the islet’s flattest ledge.
    — Greg Noone, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2019
  • This South Korean flick about a Joseon-era king who falls in love with a court jester became a box office sensation and an adapted play.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Del Toro could find himself back in the picture and director race while the screenplay with Kim Morgan could figure into the adapted race.
    — Andrew Barker, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Nueng quickly muttered a nearly silent prayer—an adapted, high-speed plea to the holy trinity of the Buddha, his teachings, and all the monks and nuns in his service.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Some cell lines are extremely well adapted to living in plastic plates (notably HeLa cells).
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Rockets launch from an adapted 747 named Cosmic Girl with an under-wing harness.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The adapted list includes Texas red oak, live oak, cedar elm, Mexican white oak, bur oak, Mexican sycamore and chinquapin oak.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Company taskmasters may yet grow fond of an adapted adage: mens sana in corporate sano.
    — The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Ned’s woundedness drives him to see what others, less adapted to being out of favor, would prefer to ignore.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • This year, even more adapted titles are headed to the streamer, including Saint X, based on Alexis Schaitkin’s 2020 bestseller.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The adapted screenplay is written by Bhardwaj and Rohan Narula.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Sep. 2021
  • It was adapted from William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel and earned the author an Oscar for adapted screenplay.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
  • But the human brain, having evolved for social life, has powerful modules that are adapted to think in those categories.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The romantic drama was a major hit with critics and on the awards circuit, winning an Oscar for James Ivory's adapted screenplay.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • While adapted screenplays don't leave much to the imagination, the Fifty Shades Freed trailers have been keeping us on our toes–the latest one teasing Ana's pregnancy at the tail-end.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2018
  • If that movie can win adapted screenplay, this film’s scribes can at minimum be nominated.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The win for adapted screenplay was part of a sweep for the film that also included victories for best picture, director, actor and actress.
    — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 26 July 2023
  • Not writer-director Siân Heder, who won the Oscar for adapted screenplay.
    — Glenn Whippentertainment Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The full effect of altering the past five adapted sports seasons is not fully known, said Brett Kosidowski, a Dakota United coach.
    — David La Vaque, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • Some of the monitoring could be done by existing or adapted consumer products, such as health apps on smartphones and fitness trackers, adds Dr Chico.
    — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020

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