Sentence examples for had adopted him from inspiring English sources
On August 9 Hadrian learned that Trajan had adopted him, the sign of succession.
His own mother, who had adopted him when he was an infant, reportedly, had sought help.
Senior's immense family had adopted him long ago and brought him tiffin and attended to his needs.
My uncle had a good job and earned well in this foreign country which had adopted him so generously.
He changed his first name and borrowed the last name, Kors, from his mother's second husband, Bill Kors, who had adopted him.
Returning to Italy, he was told that Caesar in his will had adopted him as his son and had made him his chief personal heir.
"We've adopted him, too," said Marlene Cintron, who oversees economic development for the borough.
"We've adopted him, but he is not ours per se," Negron says.
This tournament, of course, would suffice, for McEnroe, for Roddick and for the fans here who have adopted him.
He's such a legendary American artistic figure - he is Canadian but we've adopted him fiercely.
The flamboyantly ornamental aspects of Mackintosh's personality have not much embarrassed those who have adopted him as a misunderstood patriarch of modernism.
