Sentence examples for own adopted from inspiring English sources

She had reared three of her own, adopted another and taken in seven foster children.

In Budapest, Heinrich married the daughter of the king's chamberlain, who, having no sons of his own, adopted Heinrich and passed on his barony to him.

So Gabriel García Márquez describes Cartagena, for much of his life his own adopted city, in his novel Love in the Time of Cholera.

Nevada, New Mexico, convention host Colorado, Montana - and even John McCain's very own adopted state of Arizona - could all be in play for Barack Obama this year.

Mr. Reilly writes that his own adopted daughter "is living a wonderful life in America, one that an 18-year-old Korean mother could never have given a secret daughter.

No one knows this better than Mr. McCain, whose own adopted daughter of color was the subject of a vicious smear in his party's South Carolina primary of 2000.

The following winter men acquired a sheen of their own, adopting interpretations of the policeman's jacket.

By Louise Field Cooper The New Yorker, June 27 , 1942P. 52 Connecticut couple with two children of their own adopt two little Oxford View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Ceridwen Dovey By Malcolm Gladwell.

Worse, they did not present any concession of their own, adopting a no-compromise attitude that unmasked their unwillingness to live peacefully with a Jewish state by their side.

I know what some of you may say: Have a baby on your own; adopt; foster.

If you live on your own, adopt a pet from a shelter.