English example sentences with "adopt"

Learn how to use adopt in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

If you can't have children, you could always adopt.

We have decided to adopt your idea.

We will adopt your method at our school.

All things considered, we'll adopt his project.

You will save time if you adopt this new procedure.

My wife wanted to adopt a child.

Our high school decides to adopt a new teaching method.

I think it better for us to adopt his plan.

My advice is to adopt a new line.

I suggest we adopt flexible tactics for the moment.

We should adopt flexible tactics for the moment.

We should adopt his proposal.

Since they had no children of their own, they decided to adopt a little girl.

We adopt him as our representative.

She could not quite bring herself to adopt a child.

The couple decided to adopt an orphan.

I think it's better for us to adopt his plan.

I think we should adopt his plan.

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Following the demographic data, the government was obliged to adopt a policy that would stimulate the birth rate.

Some people do not have a consistent set of principles; they just adopt whatever principles benefit them at the moment.

They decided to adopt a child rather than having one of their own.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we dislike.

Globalization has gone mad: why transport Spanish cucumbers to exterminate the Northern Germans when half of them live in Mallorca? We need to rationalize all of that and adopt a more solid method of bacterial decontamination.

Tom was hoping the committee would adopt his proposal.

This sentence has no owner. You may adopt and change it, provided it will still match its direct translations, in which case you should warn the translators of your changes by commenting on their translations.

The point is not the criminal charge, it's the attitude we adopt toward those abuses.

Rodrigo's family went to the dog pound to adopt a dog.

My wife wants to adopt a child.

Since this isn't your native language, I'd suggest unowning this sentence, leaving it free for a native speaker to adopt. This way we can all be confident that it's a good sentence.

What's the right spirit to adopt when learning a language?

I can't adopt your view.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

This is one of the reasons why the Tatoeba Project asks members not to adopt orphan sentences in languages other than their own native language.

Do we have a good Japanese parent who can adopt a few sentences on Tatoeba?

Childhood is a stage of life in which people adopt a large proportion of their eating habits.

Since they had no children of their own, they decided to adopt a girl.

Why don't you adopt this sentence?

We are well aware of the fact that he is a specialist in that language. Nevertheless, he is not allowed to adopt any sentence written in it, since that isn't his mother tongue.

We've decided to adopt a child.

This is also an invariant of history. Gallic disappeared because Gallic elites were quick to send their children to the Roman school. In the same way, provincial elites later taught their offspring French at the expense of the regional languages. The ruling classes are often the first to adopt the language of the invader. They do the same today with English.

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All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government.

That's the wrong tone to adopt with me.

My great-granduncle's doctor advised him to adopt a low sodium diet.

One should adopt only sentences in their own native language.

Dan and Linda decided to adopt a little child.

Animal shelters find that fewer people want to adopt black cats, so many more black cats are euthanized than any other colour.

Tom and Mary decided to adopt John.

Maybe Tom will adopt you.

"Do you see this girl?" said the lady of the house, pointing to Elsa. "I wish to adopt her for my daughter. Make me a copy of her, which we can send to her native village instead of herself."

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The government will adopt enforcement measures to solve this problem.

I've always wanted to adopt a puppy.

Please adopt this sentence!

Please adopt this puppy.

Please adopt this cat.

He did not adopt the view.

Tom wanted to adopt you.

Please don't adopt Tom.

There's a much darker and more cynical view of history that we can adopt. Human beings are too often motivated by greed and by power. Big countries for most of history have pushed smaller ones around. Tribes and ethnic groups and nation states have very often found it most convenient to define themselves by what they hate and not just those ideas that bind them together.

If it is not absolutely necessary to enact a law, it is absolutely necessary to not adopt a law.

He likes to adopt a contrarian view just for the hell of it.

I was under the impression that Tom and Mary wanted to adopt a girl.

The couple had made a decision to adopt a child.

There is no reason to adopt a dog when we could adopt a cat.

There is no reason to adopt a dog when we could adopt a cat.

Tom and Mary want to adopt a child.

Why have a kid when you can adopt?

If you really want to have a child, you should adopt.

I will not adopt this sentence because I am not Russian.

Why have kids when you can adopt?

Still as he had been accustomed to swim merely in rivers he only buoyed himself up with difficulty, and his distress was great when fortunately necessity taught him what course he should adopt; he darted forward between two of the cows, grasped a horn of each of them and was then carried along as securely and naturally as if he had been riding in his own wain.

Tom and I want to adopt a child.

Supposing one man wished to dog another through London, what better means could he adopt than to turn cabdriver?

Why don't English speakers like to adopt English sentences?

Sami had a heart big enough to adopt six young Egyptian orphans.

We've decided to adopt your idea.

We should adopt Tom's proposal.

We ought to adopt Tom's proposal.

Carl doesn't know if he could adopt sentences in Esperanto, since Esperanto isn't his native language.

Algeria needs to adopt a new economic strategy.

I’m not going to adopt these sentences because I’m not Russian.

It seems that hygge is the new fad that all the kids in their 20s have decided to adopt. In the 90s it was Buddhism... what's next?

Berbers were one of the first nations to adopt Islam.

How can I improve my English, is there any easy way that I can adopt to improve it?

Is there any easier way to adopt to improve it?

Is there any easier way to adopt to improve my English?

How to improve my English, is there any easier way to adopt to improve?

The government needs to adopt a tough stance against separatism.

Tom decided to adopt a cat from a local animal shelter.

If you adopt a religion other than Islam in North Africa, you can go to jail if you are not killed.

Tom and Mary are planning to adopt another child.

Will Algeria adopt this approach?

India is watching to see if the country’s traditional greeting, the namaste, described as “virus-proof,” goes global as some world leaders adopt it amid the coronavirus pandemic.

We see how children adopt the behaviours of their parents.

It made a lot of sense to us to adopt a dog now because we realized that we could give Goldie the time and the attention and care that she needed.

The couple wants to adopt African children.

She wanted to adopt you.

In 1971, the deaths of two people from botulism, a severe foodborne illness caused by bacteria, prompted the National Canners Association to adopt stricter standards.

Tom felt sorry for the stray dog, so he asked his mother if they could adopt it.

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