Sample sentences for ADAPTATION

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Definition

changing to adjust to different circumstances; or something changed for that reason

in various senses, including:

film script based on a novel — as in "the screen adaptation of Rowling's novel"
changes in the species resulting from environmental conditions — as in"the adaptation of the finch to the Galapagos Islands"
changes in the eye to adjust to the amount of light — as in "adaptation to the darkness"

Hence adaptations which were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated themselves as best they might.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

In both these adaptations the reference to spring (vesna) matched the impression made by the young lad.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
This is what we call adaptation.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
I've viewed my life until now as a series of unrelated adaptations, from Irish Niamh to American Dorothy to the reincarnated Vivian.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
Another thing is that I am obsessed by the problem of mimicry, the outward adaptation of an organism to the color of its environment.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
She had to be capable of adaptation.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
For me, it was like watching an adaptation of the last couple of years of my parents' marriage, just with someone else playing the role of My Mom.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
I wondered if she was not protected by some genetic or cultural adaptation to alcohol which Slavic people seem to share with the Celts.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
I have nothing to show except bad film adaptations of my life.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
Sarayu was quick to reply, "Don't confuse adaptation for intention, or seduction for reality."
William P. Young -- The Shack
No immunity, no adaptation, no antibodies would have been developed.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
This facile adaptation was at once the symptom of perfect health and its best preservative.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
It was among lean-to's and adaptations—past ogham stones commemorating some long-dead Deag the son of No, built into a later bastion upside down.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
I would like my DVD of the movie Adaptation.
Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
'But with this change in condition comes inevitably adaptations to the change.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
Glenn complimented her upon her adaptation to such unpleasant conditions.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
The attacks relied on this critical adaptation.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
But it gives you our general idea and you'll work it out yourself, make your own adaptation of the Classic motive to the facade.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
In some ways, this is not much of an adaptation for a black man in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
Nor is the Shakespeare adaptation phenomenon restricted to the stage and screen.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

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