adapt

In a sentence

Six example sentences with adapt, each labelled with its topic.

• Guards who cannot adapt to a defense that switches every screen find their scoring average collapsing by midseason.

  Basketball

• Travelers who adapt quickly to the local rhythm of late dinners and long afternoons enjoy the country far more.

  Travel

• Coastal grasses adapt to rising salt levels within a few generations, while the shrubs behind them simply die out.

  Environment

• The team had to adapt when its biggest customer switched platforms, rebuilding the product in eight weeks.

  Startups

• Touring musicians adapt to a different hall every night, softening the drums in a stone church and pushing them in a tent.

  Music

• Cooks at altitude adapt every recipe, since water boils cooler and a cake that rises at sea level collapses at nine thousand feet.

  Cooking

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

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