Sentence examples for adopted told from inspiring English sources

Coster-Mullen, who was adopted, told me that his parents' surname was Mullen.

The former playmaker Xavi Hernández, analysing their play and personality, focusing on the 3-5-2 formation Conte has adopted, told Gazzetta dello Sport that Italy were the "worst" opponent Spain could have got.

Natalia Vishnevskaya, the head doctor at the orphanage in Pskov where they were adopted, told Russia's Channel One that the boys' biological mother took no interest in the boys' lives and that her parental rights had been stripped when her sons were 1 and 2 years old.

This is such an occasion, as venerable lefty Mark Steel, who is adopted, tells the tale of seeking his birth parents.

When you are adopted, tell them you came from an abusive family and you want to start over.

A man who says he is the biological father of a 4-year-old Malawian girl whom Madonna is trying to adopt told CBS's "Early Show" that although he has yet to meet the child, he wanted to care for her himself, cbsnews.com reported.

"This is a sort of middle course they have adopted," he told the Dawn news channel.

"We decide who wins under the law that the people have adopted," he told C-Span in 2009.

I asked my 16-year-old niece Jessie (who has two moms of her own) for her advice since I know she is often asked, "Who is your real mom?" or "Are you adopted?" She told me: "By no means should you feel any pressure to answer these questions.

"In July, the law on indexation was adopted," he told me in an interview in August 2013.

I will give you an example, a story my adopted father told me.