Sentence examples for boy was adapted for from inspiring English sources

Raymond Briggs's tale of a snowman who comes to life and befriends a small boy was adapted for the stage by Bill Alexander in 1993.

One of her most popular books, "The Toothpaste Millionaire," (1972), which was adapted for television in 1974, was about an African-American boy who starts a homemade toothpaste business and successfully blocks the best efforts of Corporate Toothpaste to crush him.

It was adapted for film in 2013.

It was adapted for an American audience.

It was adapted for local use.

Haig's books — among them his children's novel A Boy Called Christmas, which is being adapted for the big screen — have sold more than a million copies in the UK and been translated into 45 languages worldwide.

That novel (filmed for television in 1996) and others were adapted for the screen, notably Storm Boy (1963; filmed 1976), a classic tale of a white boy and his Aboriginal mentor.

Dahl's 1964 children's novel, about a boy and his grandfather who win admission to Willy Wonka's mysterious sweet factory, has twice been adapted for the screen.

Grass flowers are adapted for wind-pollination.

Incisors are adapted for nipping off flesh.

Other shrews are adapted for burrowing.