ADAPTABLE in a Sentence

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86 example sentences for ADAPTABLE, such as:
1. The post is adapted to her ability.
2. You should adapt yourself to the new class.
3. The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.
4. Yulan magnolia can adapt to a variety of soils.
5. Many old market buildings have proved highly adaptable.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ADAPTABLE
adaptable
 a.  capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  The Carol who regarded herself as completely adaptable was uncomfortable at being chosen as comrade by a pipe-reeking odd-job man.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  This is a first-class, up-to-date burgling kit, with nickel-plated jemmy, diamond-tipped glass-cutter, adaptable keys, and every modern improvement which the march of civilization demands.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
3  Urged thus far, I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an element which I had willingly chosen.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  The only member of our small society who positively refused to adapt himself to circumstances, was Jip.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
5  She had taken them out now, to adapt herself, I suppose, to the altered character of the house; and wore but one or two disconsolate bows of sober brown.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
6  I had endeavoured to adapt Dora to myself, and found it impracticable.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
7  It remained for me to adapt myself to Dora; to share with her what I could, and be happy; to bear on my own shoulders what I must, and be happy still.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
8  Lily had no mind for the vagabond life of the poor relation, and to adapt herself to Mrs. Peniston she had, to some degree, to assume that lady's passive attitude.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  If such a warning had ever been needful, the years had taught her a salutary lesson, and she flattered herself that she now knew how to adapt her pace to the object of pursuit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
10  He came late, at the confidential hour when the tea-table still lingers by the fire in friendly expectancy; and his manner showed a readiness to adapt itself to the intimacy of the occasion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
11  if we adapt ourselves to the necessities, and at the same time weave the adaptation together into a piece with our steadily-lived life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  The world is more or less a fixed thing and, externally, we have to adapt ourselves to it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  At the same time, it is for a subordinate to adapt himself to the tone of his superior, rather than for a superior to adapt himself to the tone of his subordinate.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
14  The second, which hardly differs from the first, that in their actions, and especially in matters of moment, men must have regard to times and circumstances and adapt themselves thereto.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII.
15  After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The American Constitution has proved adaptable in changing political conditions.
2  The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.
3  Many old market buildings have proved highly adaptable.
4  This sofa has a two tone finish which makes it not only functional but also adaptable to any contemporary interior design.
5  Somehow I doubt the necessity of using the French phrase when the English equivalent is thoroughly adaptable.
6  The author is going to adapt his stories for television.
7  Yulan magnolia can adapt to a variety of soils.
8  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
9  You should adapt yourself to the new class.
10  The world will be different, and we will have to be prepared to adapt to the change.
11  It is really hard for Jim to adapt to the new environment.
12  All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions.
13  One way to adapt is to become smaller, generation by generation.
14  The post is adapted to her ability.
15  The facilities have been adapted to give access to wheelchair users.