adhere

In a sentence

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

• Every subcontractor must adhere to the safety schedule written into the main contract, whatever their own house rules say.

  Law

• The kitchen adheres to the original recipe exactly, down to the copper pan and the twenty-minute rest.

  Cooking

• Patients who adhere to the full course recover faster, so the clinic sends a text reminder each evening.

  Medicine

• Every trade on the desk must adhere to the risk limits set each morning, and the software blocks any that do not.

  Finance

• Players who adhere to the scouting report know which shooter to leave open and which one to never leave.

  Basketball

• The new wing had to adhere to the fire code, which set the width of every corridor and stairway.

  Architecture

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains adhere. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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