Sentence examples for adopt someone from inspiring English sources

("Really, you can adopt someone you're fucking? That's a great law," Scott's drug dealer says).

She described writing fiction as something like this: shedding her own perspective entirely to adopt someone else's.

We started by calling our local authority, but the lady on the telephone made us feel uncomfortable about our reasons for wanting to adopt someone else's child.

"I really felt alone," Tom said, and at 9, after an H.I.V.-camp friend died, he begged them to adopt someone like him.

"We were just saying we should adopt someone," DeGeneres replied.

If someone were to come to the United States and tell the women here that in order to get equal pay and a woman in the White House they needed to drop their culture and adopt someone else's culture, I don't think they'd go for it.

Even Burt's daughter has sporadically adopted someone else's time period.

You can say that you're capable of renouncing your own style, adopting someone else's, yet the wording is always yours.

Self is infinitely readable, even when adopting someone else's plot and recycling his own jokes (the conga lines debuted five years ago in Great Apes).

As we shall see, "empathy" in the sense of adopting someone's viewpoint is not the same as "empathy" in the sense of feeling compassion toward the person, but the first can lead to the second by a natural route.

Others adopted someone else's (East Timor opted for the US dollar).