Example sentences for: adapting

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

  • British playwright David Hare wins praise for adapting Chekhov into colloquial language, though the melodrama of the original is said to remain.

  • 35 This entailed buying and then adapting early scanning technologies for use at sales counters and for point-of-sale data collection.

  • German director Volker Schlöndorff ( The Tin Drum ) tries his hand at film noir, but most critics say he should stick to "adapting serious literary works" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). They complain that his film--about an ex-con (Woody Harrelson) who falls for the wife (Elisabeth Shue) of a dying millionaire--overdoes the shadowy lighting and complicated plot twists of the genre.

  • Lee wins praise for his "gently ironic touch" in adapting a novel by Rick Moody, and for being "less interested in assigning blame for all the misery than in simply documenting it" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). (The movie is plugged here.

  • The central hypothesis is that a core curriculum designed, written and taught by physicians using state of the art clinical knowledge and education theory, can be effective in reaching a second tier of physicians by having the newly trained physicians return to their work settings and seek to engage and educate a growing number of their peers using and adapting the provided educational materials.


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