How to use "adapt" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "adapt" in popular movie and book plots

  • Kaveri Amma tells him that she prefers to stay in Charanpur as it will be difficult for her to adapt to a new country at her age.  - Swades
  • They are very different from Sara and Phemie (Annabeth Gish) and must adapt to their new brutal life.  - True Women
  • He helps her adapt to the English way of life.  - The New World (2005 film)
  • To adapt and live peacefully among humans, they become the Picts, and Ashlar their king.  - Taltos (Rice novel)
  • His struggles to adapt to life as a free man show an attempt at personal reform.  - The Wire
  • Enrique wants to adapt Ignacio's story into a film, but Ángel's condition is that he plays the part of Zahara, the transsexual lead.  - Bad Education (film)
  • By August 1992, bail for Amy is made by a TV network working to adapt her story.  - Casualties of Love: The "Long Island Lolita" Story
  • He is accepted as "Kisu-Mu", one of the Niaruna gods, and begins to adapt to Niaruna life and culture.  - At Play in the Fields of the Lord
  • At the nightclub, Mel cajoles him to adapt a book for a movie.  - In a Lonely Place
  • Ludlow's wife Isabel does not adapt to the harsh Montana winters and moves to the East Coast; Tristan vows never to speak of her again.  - Legends of the Fall
  • They also tried to adapt their own lifestyle to their ideals.  - Helpless (play)
  • Some Lunarites want to further adapt their bodies to life on the Moon, but Earth has outlawed genetic engineering decades ago.  - The Gods Themselves
  • The girls generally have no romantic interest and spurn his mild advances, and adapt to his presence in the flat.  - Man About the House
  • Hostile to each other at the start, they grew to understand and accept each other, as both try to adapt to each other's ways.  - To the Manor Born
  • They ask Tricia's help to adapt astrology charts for Rupert in exchange for allowing her to interview them.  - Mostly Harmless
  • He struggles to adapt to life outside prison and fears he never will.  - The Shawshank Redemption

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