Examples of “adoption” in a Sentence

noun The legal process of taking a child into your family as your own.

• After the adoption, the little girl finally had a bedroom of her own.
• The adoption was finalized after a long wait.
• They're considering adoption after years of fertility treatment.

noun The act of starting to use or accept something, such as a method, technology, or plan.

• The council's adoption of the new recycling scheme made the streets noticeably cleaner.
• The adoption of electric vehicles is rising every year.
• Widespread adoption of the new software took months.