In a sentence
Six example sentences with adopted, each labelled with its topic.
He calls Lisbon his adopted city, having arrived for a short holiday nine years ago and never bought a return ticket.
Travel
The bakery's adopted method comes from Naples, and the owner spent two summers there learning to fold the dough.
Cooking
Her adopted palette of ochres and grays came from a year in Provence and never left the later canvases.
Art
The adopted standard for charging cables ended a decade of drawers full of connectors that fit nothing.
Technology
He calls Memphis his adopted home, having arrived on a one-year contract and stayed for eleven seasons.
Basketball
The singer's adopted stage name came from a street sign, and even her mother uses it now.
Music
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- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
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