How to Use adoptive in a Sentence

adoptive

adjective
Definition of adoptivenext
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  • The adoptive parents of the third Adams child who has filed suit declined to speak to the AP about the case.
    — Michael Rezendes, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Beth’s adoptive mother brought enough heart to warm the whole thing up.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
  • In Athens more than 6,000 miles from his adoptive city of Houston, Rick Lowe is at home.
    — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Tressie King and her husband, Jamel, along with their adoptive son.
    — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Allen and Maria’s son, Earnest Young, moved to Virginia after the death of his adoptive parents and lived to the ripe old age of 83.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • So-young on board with the plan to hit the road and meet with potential adoptive parents.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
  • At the time, Major Haley went by the same first name as his adoptive father, Bill.
    — Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • One of her favorite shops in her adoptive city is Boutique de France.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The adoptive father was found not guilty by a jury in 2022, while the mother's charges were dismissed this year.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • His adoptive father died of a heart attack when Cruz was 5.
    — Gerard Albert Iii, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The new law also changes the applicable age of an adoptive child from 7 to 10.
    — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2021
  • But when one’s adoptive home thrives, even as the home country flounders, a kind of survivor’s guilt kicks in.
    — Aatish Taseer, Time, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Her [adoptive] father called her scar the Devil’s mark.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The photo shows one of the nannies who cared for her handing her to her new adoptive mother.
    — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Many of my friends never knew that Beth was my adoptive daughter.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2024
  • Mary Sisk was Mason Sisk’s adoptive mother and was one of the five people he is accused of killing.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Now, four years later, Zach and his wife are her adoptive parents.
    — Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The core idea of these stories was that orphans were fated to end up with their adoptive parents.
    — Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Tabitha, Ginger and Elizabeth are the three adoptive mothers at the heart of this story.
    — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • McCluskey had helped her place her second child in an adoptive home.
    — Marin Cogan, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Besides, the group’s officials ask, what will these refugees do in their adoptive lands?
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Cristina cried the entire long flight back home with her adoptive father.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The new adoptive family, forming like a scar, is built on loss and breakage.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 3 July 2024
  • When Julia was a girl, Hendrickson had served much the same role for her adoptive mother.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But Natalia, who confronted her adoptive father in the last episode of the new series, claims she was abused by the couple.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The newborn creature, named Ada, moves inside the house with its adoptive parents.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Born Richard Jerome Hazen and renamed as an infant by his adoptive parents, Ivory is now 93.
    — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
  • She is survived by her adoptive son, Andrew Hart Adler.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The new film sees Yelena return to her adoptive father Alexei, feeling a sense of depression following the events of that movie and Hawkeye.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Alongside his adoptive brother Seth (Adam Brody), Ryan navigates his new environment and the relationships that come with it.
    — Leila Jordan, EW.com, 27 July 2024

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