Example sentences for: adaptation

How can you use “adaptation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His adaptation is extremely faithful to the novel.

  • Raves for director Neil Jordan's ( The Crying Game ) "hauntingly beautiful" (Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek ) adaptation of a Graham Greene novel.

  • (It should be noted that Johnson made the same kind of adaptation of another poem by Juvenal, Satire X, calling it The Vanity of Human Wishes.

  • But Fiennes is truly in his odd element as a Graham Greene hero in Neil Jordan's fluid adaptation of The End of the Affair . He plays Maurice Bendrix, a self-centered novelist who embarks on an opportunistic but increasingly incendiary romance with Sarah (Julianne Moore), the wife of a bland civil servant named Henry Miles (Stephen Rea).

  • A remake of a 1963 film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House , this version cuts out the psychological elements that made the original compelling.


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