Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: adopting
IPA transcription: [əd'ɑptɪŋ]
Pronunciations of adopting
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Usage examples
  • It was also by night alone that I could hope to accomplish my object, and then only by adopting the utmost precaution.
  • But his acting was for his own amusement, and it is doubtful if he ever thought seriously of adopting the stage as a profession.
  • We will now enumerate a few duties, adopting the usual division of them into duties to ourselves and ourselves and to others, and into perfect and imperfect duties.
  • "You would be glad," the lawyer, without lifting his eyes, responded, adopting, with a certain satisfaction, the tone of his client's remarks, "for me to lay before you all the methods by which you could secure what you desire?"
  • Propriety with difficulty tolerates these fancies of a spoiled child: but it applauds a woman of sense and taste, who is not in a hurry to follow the fashions and asks how long they will probably last before adopting them; finally, who selects and modifies them with success according to her size and figure.
  • A hasty note for Mr. Dawson, whom he had tricked into temporary association by adopting one of the disguises he can so wonderfully assume, requested that gentleman to receive the Handicap Stakes, won by his horse, Darkie, alias Rainbow, and to hand them over to the treasurer of the Turon Hospital, which was accordingly done.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording George V, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording IBM WebSphere MQ, License CC BY-SA 4.0