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Example sentences for "adapted"

Lexicographically close words:
adaptability; adaptable; adaptation; adaptational; adaptations; adaptedness; adapter; adapters; adapting; adaption
  1. Is his frame of mind adapted to the study of the Bible?

  2. The description of character, which the apostle records, could be adapted only to what are reckoned the very dregs of humanity.

  3. That the relation of the servants here addressed, to their master, was adapted to make him the object of their heart-felt attachment.

  4. It is adapted to his mind in its earliest stages of progression, and its highest state of intellectuality.

  5. A finer field of usefulness than Scotland, or one more adapted to Whitefield's peculiar genius, doctrines, and mode of action, it would have been difficult to find.

  6. It is taken from the preface to the sermon, and was hardly adapted to gain the young preacher favour among the clergy whom it censures.

  7. The truths which distinguished his preaching were truths exactly adapted to the wants and yearnings of human nature,--such as meet the necessities of human beings of all classes, in all lands, and belonging to all ages.

  8. In this, her longest work, it is specially evident that her manner was not adapted to what the French call ouvrages de longue haleine.

  9. The principal line runs through the streets parallel with their axes, and, when the arrangement of the places is adapted thereto, it is closed upon the generator itself.

  10. A wild, irregular species of music played on the bagpipes, adapted particularly to rouse a martial spirit among troops going to battle.

  11. No work which God sets a man to do--no work to which God has specially adapted a man's powers--can properly be called either menial or mean.

  12. The former mode of travelling is best adapted to the country through which we are to travel, but you are at liberty to choose between them.

  13. First, he adapted to Wales the institution of justices of the peace, which had proved the most efficient instrument for the maintenance of his authority in England.

  14. He seems to have begun it, or some similar treatise, which may afterwards have been adapted to Luther's particular case, before the end of the year in which the German reformer published his original theses.

  15. The second has a very small area, showing that the work done in reversing the magnetization is small; the metal is therefore adapted for use in alternating current transformers.

  16. But for much important experimental work it is better adapted than any other, and is indeed sometimes the only method possible.

  17. The apparatus may be placed in, and adapted to, almost any existing closet or privy, and so arranged that the supply and removal of earth may be carried on inside or outside as desired.

  18. The rewards and penalties of the life to come are better adapted to maturer age, than to the imperfect and often false and fearful conceptions of the childish mind.

  19. If we add this piece of carpeting to the estimates for our room, we still leave a margin for a picture, and make the programme equally adapted to summer and winter.

  20. One method is exhibited in the first chapters, adapted to country residence.

  21. The cottage at the head of this chapter is projected on a plan which can be adapted to a warm or cold climate with little change.

  22. There is one kind which bears monthly; but the varieties of this and all other fruits are now so numerous that we can easily find those which are adapted to the special circumstances of the case.

  23. An annual tax upon the land itself, exclusive of the timber, and a tax upon the timber when cut is well adapted to actual conditions of forest investment and is practicable and certain.

  24. It is a sound and well-proved policy that it is well for the state to own lands which are not adapted for permanent individual development.

  25. When comprising the entire stand, or at least clearly dominating it, with all ages fairly evenly represented, successful in reproduction, and not so dense as to present mechanical difficulties, it is ideally adapted to this form of management.

  26. They are admirably adapted to modifying the cost to fit the season.

  27. If such are present and the situation is adapted to them, any expensive effort to get spruce merely by modifying methods of logging or handling the slash is certainly likely to be disappointing.

  28. Theoretically, such practice with a species adapted to the selective method is uneconomical, for the ground is not fully utilized.

  29. In favorable localities at low altitudes, where moisture is abundant either through natural precipitation or from irrigation, the number of species which are adapted to woodlot planting is largely increased.

  30. While cedar is adapted for poles, posts and other underground use, less decay-resisting species can be made equally durable by chemical treatment.

  31. Kellogg is admirably adapted for that department of his noble profession which he has chosen.

  32. They are intended and adapted for the cultivated and thriving classes of the community.

  33. The arctic regions, though ill-adapted for the abode of man, teem with animal life.

  34. It can assent to divine truth, and act upon it, so far as this truth is adapted to the perfecting of the intellect and will in the natural order.

  35. The clergy will also find these "Good Thoughts" admirably adapted to their wants, as furnishing suggestive matter for {432} sermons and parochial instructions.

  36. But keeping cattle of every sort is a business so much more adapted to the laziness of the farmer, that it is no wonder the tillage is so bad.

  37. They framed a representative system, which, though not without defects and irregularities, was well adapted to the state of England in their time.

  38. The Catholic Controversy 0 6 0 "No one who has not read it can conceive how clear, how convincing, and how well adapted to our present needs are these controversial 'leaves.

  39. Adapted from the original of Abbé de Brandt, by Sister Mary Fidelis.

  40. Written chiefly for devout souls such as are trying to live an interior and supernatural life by following in the footsteps of our Lord and His saints, this work is eminently adapted for the use of ecclesiastics and of religious communities.

  41. Religious teachers have ever given to their people a cosmogony that was adapted to their understanding.

  42. All that live exist only because they have adapted themselves to the hard lines that Nature has laid down.

  43. Adapted from the story as told in Fables and Folk Tales From an Eastern Forest, by Walter Skeat.

  44. A vast variety of crops was cultivated by the Romans, and the different kinds were adapted by them, with great care, to the different soils.

  45. It has been disputed, if Cicero was really attached to the new Academic system, or had merely resorted to it as being best adapted for furnishing him with oratorical arguments suited to all occasions.

  46. His philosophic dialogues are rather to be considered as popular treatises, adapted to the ordinary comprehension of well-informed men, than profound disquisitions, suited only to a Portico or Lyceum.

  47. This case was undertaken by Cicero, at the request of the celebrated comedian Roscius, the brother-in-law of Quintius; but it was not of a nature well adapted to call forth or display any of the higher powers of eloquence.

  48. Italy was well adapted for every species of agriculture, and was most justly termed by her greatest poet, magna parens frugum.

  49. In this new form, the Academica consisted of four books, a division which was better adapted for treating his subject: But of these four, only the first remains.

  50. That philosopher, as is well known, after writing on government in general, drew up a body of laws adapted to that particular form of it which he had delineated.

  51. He was an author, of all others, the worst qualified to succeed in the task which he had undertaken, as his heavy and leaden pen was ill adapted to express the elegant light graces of his original.

  52. For what is the Parthenon frieze, as we now come to it fresh from the palaces of Nineveh, but an Assyrian fresco adapted to the needs and ideals of another race and developed by the genius of a newer civilisation?

  53. Still it will be a grandiose, gypsy, or rather Sibylline ugliness, well adapted to the expression of some tragic parts.

  54. Fall or stand, one sees in him a man engaged in the career for which he is adapted by nature.

  55. Perhaps a melancholy or tender subject suits him best; something rich, bold, and mellow is more adapted to call out the genius of Cranch.

  56. Taming of the Shrew, adapted for drawing-room, paper wrapper, 1s.

  57. Pigeons were here in great numbers, and Wylie tried several times with the rifle to shoot them, but only killed one, the grooved barrel not being adapted for throwing shot with effect.

  58. After dinner we all walked down to the lagoon, west of Port Lincoln, where the land is of a rich black alluvial character, and well adapted for cultivation.

  59. There appeared to be a reef off the entrance outside, but our being without a boat prevented us from ascertaining how far this inlet was adapted for a harbour.

  60. Altogether we passed this day through a considerable tract of country, containing much land that is well adapted for sheep or cattle, and with a fair proportion suitable for agriculture.

  61. Bark is sometimes used to cover the meat, instead of grass or leaves, and is in some respects better adapted for that purpose, being less liable to let dirt into the oven.

  62. Other varieties might have been procured off the rocks near the shore, from which there were many places well adapted for fishing.

  63. We traversed a great extent of plain land which was generally stony, but grassy, and tolerably well adapted for sheep runs.

  64. The poola-danooko is a very pretty looking, flat, oval basket, adapted for laying against the back.

  65. Also the birth scene (see chapter ix below) is perhaps adapted from a German folk-tale.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adapted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    able; accustomed; adapted; adjusted; applicable; apposite; appropriate; apropos; apt; assorted; becoming; befitting; calculated; capable; competent; conditioned; dovetailing; experienced; felicitous; fit; fitted; fitting; geared; happy; hardened; inured; likely; matched; meshing; naturalized; opportune; oriented; proficient; proper; qualified; relevant; right; seasonable; seasoned; suitable; suite; suited; tailored; trained; wont; wonted