Sentence examples for adopt somebody from inspiring English sources

The problem was that years ago it decided that it was too powerful to adopt somebody else's standards for HTML and made up its own.

There are plenty of pen pal services on the web, or you might adopt somebody you already know from chatting.

Empathy, on the other hand, refers to automatically adopting somebody's emotional state while maintaining the self other distinction (Singer and Lamm 2009; Decety and Jackson 2004).

"I would like to initiate an "adopt-an-elder" programme where everyone at the age of 18 is required to adopt an elderly person; that is, somebody 75 years of age and above.

"Every once in a while somebody will adopt a horse over the Internet or in person and get home and realize it's a lot more work," Ms. Ness-Smith said.

"I don't like it when somebody copies somebody and just adopt it.

"May I, today, find somebody to adopt me quickly?" he asked.

At the courthouse there, she told a startled judge that she wanted somebody to adopt her.

"Maybe somebody will adopt us," he added, referring to the example of Kevin Spacey who "came out of the sky and saved" the play "Cobb," now playing Off Broadway.

And somebody would adopt that baby if they were prepared," she says.

"I just wanted to go anywhere," Khaled said, remembering that he thought "perhaps somebody would adopt us".