Sentence examples for less adopted from inspiring English sources

"It was a small seven-year-old boy who more or less adopted us," she said, chuckling.

He had retired by then, his wife had left him, and, at loose ends, he more or less adopted his brother Ed's family — Ed Jr. especially.

When Max is in repose, he reveals haunting glimpses of the frightened little boy who was more or less adopted by Suzanna's parents at age 10.

Lionel is one of the "Minna Men", a ragged group of four orphans whom Minna more or less adopted as teenagers from the neighbourhood boys' home.

He tells us about his mother, and about how he was more or less adopted, as a young man, by Oscar Hammerstein II, a kindness that probably saved his life.

Guillen's parents divorced when he was nine, and he was more or less adopted by a man who happened to be the uncle of the Hall of Fame shortstop Luis Aparicio.

Comically, Lowell and Bishop more or less adopt the younger poet Frank Bidart, who catered to Lowell during his endless revisions (or perhaps encouraged his manic over-revision — "spoiling by polishing," Lowell called it) and proved Johnny-on-the-spot after Bishop moved to Boston.

Two of those fake trailers – Machete and Hobo With A Shotgun – became features of their own, again more or less adopting the stylistic gimmicks and political values of the era, especially Hobo, which supplemented its lurid colour palette and awful gore effects with a genuine 1980s throwback: Rutger Hauer.

People of lower socioeconomic position have been found to smoke more, exercise less, have poorer diets, comply less well with therapy, use medical services less, adopt fewer safety measures, ignore health advice more, and be less health-conscious overall, than their more affluent peers [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18].

By and large, though, these tools for fiscal credibility have been less well developed, less widely adopted and generally less effective than their monetary equivalents.

Tony more or less adopts the motto of the Strategic Air Command that in the 1960s Bertrand Russell thought so ironically amusing: "Peace is our profession".