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How to use adaptation in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Adaptation means the process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification. Example: “My favorite miniseries of all time is the old BBC adaptation of "I, Claudius".”

Examples of adaptation by meaning

nounThe process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.

  • To sum up, the Furka-Oberalp Railway is a good example of the adaptation of the rack-and-pinion system to a main line over mountainous terrain.1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 770
  • Lifestyle adaptation arises because people inevitably encounter a gap between the style of life they desire and the actual resources they control.2015, Jon M. Hawes, Proceedings of the 1989 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Springer, →ISBN, page 70

nounA change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.

  • It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever.1999, Jim Meisenheimer, How to Double Your Sales Without Quadrupling Your Effort, Helbern, →ISBN, page 41

nounThe process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.

  • Plays are rich and suitable sources for adaptation to film.2010, David K. Irving, Fundamentals of Film Directing, McFarland, →ISBN, page 19

nounAn artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.

  • Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.1910, Frederick Lawton, Balzac

More sentences with adaptation

  • My favorite miniseries of all time is the old BBC adaptation of "I, Claudius".From the entry miniseries
  • Psammophilous plants tend to have adaptations to resist damage from wind-blown sand.From the entry psammophilous
  • His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.From the entry capture
  • They're telling us that climate change is a done deal — that now we're into mitigation and adaptation instead of prevention.From the entry done deal
  • An estimated $85 billion is required to fund preliminary LGU adaptation requirements.2021 October 21, Department of Finance Philippines, “Philippines Goes Green”, in CNN. From the entry LGU
  • Climate change adaptation measures should therefore be improved in the planning and construction of Xiongan New Area.2020 June 3, Yujie Wang et al., “Climate-related risks in the construction of Xiongan New Area, China”, in Theoretical and Applied…. From the entry Xiongan
  • It is the context of our most current situation and is an adaptation to being 'hyperreal.'2020, Julianne Pederson, “Metamodernism in Fashion and Style Practice: Authorship and the Consumer”, in Barbara Brownie, Johannes Reponen…. From the entry SoundCloud
  • Hence, an adaptation of the context similarity-based selection method to multiclassification problems remains an interesting future task.2015 August 3, Yifei Chen, Yuxing Sun, Bing-Qing Han, “Improving Classification of Protein Interaction Articles Using Context…. From the entry multiclassification
  • All together, we can conclude that osmobalancing plays a crucial role in caspofungin adaptation.2015 September 11, “Network Modeling Reveals Cross Talk of MAP Kinases during Adaptation to Caspofungin Stress in Aspergillus fumigatus”…. From the entry osmobalancing
  • Magic Duels is the first official mobile adaptation of the popular Magic: The Gathering card battler.2015 September, Thomas Wellburn, “Heroes and villains”, in What Mobile, page 46. From the entry card-battler
  • If they differed, then the woodhewer feature was not a climbing adaptation.2013, Max Hecht, Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry woodhewer
  • Although in the actual story, her victory is extremely limited, flanderization takes hold in adaptations.2012 December 21, David Johnson, “Re: Elementary – Episode 8 – The Long Fuse”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet). From the entry flanderization
  • Our case studies reveal that the rationality of climate change adaptation relies on multiple and scattered responsibilisations.2012, Monica Tennberg, Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia and Finland, →ISBN. From the entry responsibilisation
  • New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227. From the entry New World porcupine
  • Dynamic image pre-distortions and display adaptations—with help from an eye tracker—could provide for proper perspective and focus.2011, Rolf R. Hainich, Oliver Bimber, “Additional Requirements”, in Displays: Fundamentals & Applications, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press…. From the entry pre-distortion
  • For example, what is the significance of changing the 'Pride'‚ to 'Bride', in Gurinder Chadha's film adaptation?2010, Deborah Cartmell, Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A close study of the relationship between text and film…. From the entry hypotext
  • That so little work is done on adaptation is a function of both 'limitationist' and 'adaptationist' biases.2009, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Ian Burton, editors, The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change, London; Sterling, V.A.: Earthscan…. From the entry limitationist
  • We might also consider adaptation alongside the processes of publishing sequels, prequels and coquels, and fan fiction.2008, Rachel Malik, “Horizons of the Publishable: Publishing in/as Literary Studies”, in ELH, volume 75, number 3, →JSTOR, page 727. From the entry coquel
  • Accordingly it deals with a continuous adaptation to the comfortabilities of the Roman civilisation.2004, Ingemar Nordgren, “Description of the Known History of the Goths”, in The Well Spring of the Goths: About the Gothic Peoples in the…. From the entry comfortability
  • Their adaptation to austere monastic life includes an unexpected wrinkle — their introduction to World Cup Soccer!2003, David Bleiler, TLA Film, Video, and DVD Guide 2002-2003: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN. From the entry soccermania
  • Most of them are adaptations of those used to Q-switch bulk lasers.2001, Michel J.F. Digonnet, Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers. From the entry Q-switch
  • I want to make a distinction between adaptation and exaptation here.2000, Gabriel A. Dover, Dear Mr. Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature, University of California Press, page 226. From the entry exaptation
  • The evolution involves an internal adaptation by the receiving legal system in its own way.1998, John Bell, “Mechanisms for Cross-fertilisation of Administrative Law in Europe”, in Jack Beatson, Takis Tridimas, editors, New…. From the entry bolt-on
  • The epifauna of megaripples: species adaptations and population responses to disturbance.1990, Ronald Hamlyn-Harris, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland Museum, page 260. From the entry megaripple
  • Thus the plant's allomonic adaptation has been exactly reversed by this insect's counteradaptation.1980, Fowden G. Maxwell, Peter Randolph Jennings, Breeding Plants Resistant to Insects, page 132. From the entry counteradaptation
  • Our deepest needs stem from ancient and still poorly understood biological adaptations.1979, E. O. Wilson, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art, volume 84, page xxxii. From the entry biophilia
  • Our senses, our instincts, our intellections are all instruments of adaptation.1934, R. V. Feldman, “The Metaphysics of Wonder and Surprise”, in Philosophy, volume 9, number 34, page 210. From the entry intellection
  • The various adaptations of the ichthyopterygium to locomotion have little bearing on the question of homology.1923, William King Gregory, Roy Waldo Miner, and Gladwyn Kingsley Noble, “The carpus of Eryops and the structure of the primitive…. From the entry ichthyopterygium
  • However, conspiracy theorists don't want decarbonization or climate adaptation measures.2025 July 8, u/marten_EU_BR, “Those chemtrails at it again!!”, in r/terriblefacebookmemes, Reddit, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025. From the entry delulu
  • Another is the British academic Jem Bendell, who advocates an approach he describes as “deep adaptation” to an anticipated “societal collapse”.2021 May 17, Susanna Rustin, “How we talk about the climate crisis is increasingly crucial to tackling it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry deep adaptation
  • Explore the expansive universe of The Dying Earth novel series in the Dungeons Crawl Classics roleplaying game adaptation.2021 June 28, Alex Meehan, “The Dying Earth novels have been adapted into a roleplaying game based on classic D&D”, in dicebreaker.com. From the entry Dying Earth
  • The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented.2016 February 18, “Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry macrostomatan
  • Hellenismos aka Dodekatheism, Hellenism, Hellenic Polytheism or Hellenic Reconstructionism is the modern adaptation of the Ancient Hellenic (Greek) religion.2016, Rachel Patterson, The Art of Ritual, Collective Ink, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry Dodekatheism
  • Human legs are adaptations for locomotion, but exaptations for walking.2013, Heather Dyke, James MacLaurin, “30: Evolutionary Explanations of Temporal Experience”, in Adrian Bardon, Heather Dyke, editors, A…. From the entry exaptation
  • It was an adaptation of the good cop-bad cop game the police often use when trying to pry confessions from suspects.2010, Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 493. From the entry good cop-bad cop

Meaning of adaptation

  1. noun The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
  2. noun A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
  3. noun The process of replacing a given morpheme of a source lexeme with an equivalent morpheme of the target lexeme, especially where the two morphemes are cognates.

Full definition of adaptation

Questions about adaptation in a sentence

How do you use adaptation in a sentence?
Adaptation is used as a noun. For example: “My favorite miniseries of all time is the old BBC adaptation of "I, Claudius".”
What is a short sentence with adaptation?
“His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.”
What does adaptation mean?
Adaptation means the process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.

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