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

A few chapters after that, Adele is taking Ann on rides past Dr. Spritzer's apartment and saying things like "I'd like to tell his psychiatrist a thing or two."
(In the movie, Dr. Spritzer hangs up on Adele the morning after their first date because she tells him she loves him.)
The style is naturalistic; the plot is your basic love triangle, with a lesbian twist: Adele, whose butch forthrightness makes her an obvious stand-in for Stein, falls for a frustrating coquette, Helen, who returns her love but can't commit because she's already beholden to Mabel, a rich, withered-spinster type.
Ann and Adele, products of the claustrophobic 1950s, fought and clung to each other and never found their man.
Here is how, in the novel, Adele August describes to her teen-age daughter Ann her first date with Dr. Spritzer (the scene in the movie is nearly identical):