Example sentences for: co-opted

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

  • Fashion journalists and sensational fictioneers like Danielle Steele have co-opted the field, and other writers are scared off.

  • It is as if the recombination machinery has been partly co-opted for chromosome alignment in some eukaryotes more so than in others.

  • Revenue from outside sources minus an effective opposition plus a co-opted population is a formula for disaster, regardless of whether the government is controlled by Inuit, whites, or South Sea Islanders."

  • Newsweek 's cover story on Slobodan Milosevic, "The Face of Evil," recites the now familiar story of how he co-opted Serb nationalism to fuel his own rise to power.

  • Clinton has already co-opted Republicans on welfare, family values, the death penalty, crime, etc.


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