Adapting

Examples

• Emphasis is placed upon the devising, adapting, constructing faculties. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I can see no limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Let things stop as they are, I said, adapting my language to my listener. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That I was inexperienced in the art of adapting my mind to minds very differently situated, and addressing them from suitable points of view. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Every species of living thing is always adapting itself more and more closely to its conditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Business men had been adapting themselves to the more hectic methods necessary for profit in a world in a state of crisis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He also succeeded experimentally in adapting his engine to a road carriage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Yes, verily, my lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, adapting your Catechism to the occasion, and by God's help so you must. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Lily had abundant energy of her own, but it was restricted by the necessity of adapting herself to her aunt's habits. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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