9 sentences with “adapt”

Because I moved to a new city, I had to adapt to a new environment and make new friends.

Some refused to adapt and became "bandits" who rose up against the new political order almost immediately.

The rural poor became more dependent than ever on the local landed class to adapt to the new scheme of things.

One ability of bacteria that has long been known is the ability to adapt to adverse conditions; for example, when they acquire resistance to antibiotics.

In a complex device where temperature, pH - the degree of alkalinity and acidity - and oxygen concentration are constantly modified to adapt the 'superbugs' to different types of conditions.

But there are also some that adapt quietly and are transmitted from parents to offspring for millions of years, until something, such as the arrival of a new gene from another species, activates them.

Shifting or rotating work shifts - in jobs that are partly or entirely at night - also rob people of sleep because, say experts, the brain finds it difficult to adapt to these changes and, as a result, the worker loses hours of sleep.

This leads to altered kidney function, which in turn causes the blood chemistry to adapt more slowly to change. As the blood becomes less purified and circulates more slowly, tissues, especially the ultra-sensitive nervous system, stop functioning properly.

He did not find it easy to adapt to Garissa's desert climate and its people. "It was terrible. I felt isolated, had difficulty with the language and was not used to the poor sanitary conditions, not to mention the horror of the war wounded," he recalls. "Even so, after only a month in my country, I couldn't wait to go back.