Sentence examples for adopted myself from inspiring English sources
-- I'm not sure why it is -- I'm not adopted myself -- but I have a serious aversion to films where adopted children turn out to be the spawn of hell/untrustworthy/ungrateful/just plain mean.
As a happy, healthy adopted child myself, I see absolutely no need to disrupt the lives of people who have already made one of the toughest choices of their lives.
CHUNKA MUI, CONTRIBUTOR The single best idea for reforming K12 education is the one that I adopted for myself: Outsource education to parents.
"I want to see about adopting them myself," their uncle said.
Although I am too busy to adopt it myself, I can see why some people like the tradition of a post-lunch walk.
Sometimes, she writes, when the plane begins its descent above London, Ontario, her adopted city, "I find myself troubled by confusion, which gives way to a sense of arbitrariness.
One sees it also in disciples of Fowler, who turn out pedantically correct little essays in his honor (which is why I myself have adopted a slovenly, even squalid manner here).
Over the past few months, I have adopted a mantra for myself: "What kind of woman do you want to be?" It's something I ask myself whenever I'm faced with a tough decision, an out-of-control emotion or an impulse I know is unhealthy.
I tend to be a private person as well, but two years ago, I adopted a "theme" for myself of 'Put Yourself Out There.' This simple statement brought about so many wonderful changes in my personal and professional life that I became determined to stop hiding.
"I prepared myself thoroughly: I adopted a stress position straight outta Gitmo.
I resent the 'adopted child', because I never saw myself as an adopted child".
