Sentence examples for chiefly adapted from inspiring English sources

The stories are chiefly adapted from classical and medieval sources and are told with a tenderness and the restrained narrative art that constitute Gower's main appeal today.

The investigation of extremophile plant species growing in their natural environment offers certain advantages, chiefly that plants adapted to severe habitats have a repertoire of stress tolerance genes that are regulated to maximize plant performance under physiologically challenging conditions.

These French casements were adapted in the United States chiefly as ways to give access onto balconies and porches, and in this doorlike form they are known as French windows, French doors, or casement doors.

Some were based on existing Hebrew words like kammût, "quantity," from kammāh, "how much?", and others were adapted from foreign languages, chiefly Greek and Arabic, such as ʾaqlîm, "climate," and ṭibʿî, "natural".

Seal, any of 32 species of web-footed aquatic mammals that live chiefly in cold seas and whose body shape, round at the middle and tapered at the ends, is adapted to swift and graceful swimming.

Society adapted.

He adapted.

Vermeil adapted.

We adapted.

Radio adapted.

Lee adapted and continues to adapt.