YOU can tell a lot about an age from the way it adapts prefixes to its purposes.

You may be able to adapt its life system to your purposes.

Syncopation, call and response, improvisation: Bearden adapted them to his purposes.

You listened to our conversations and you adapted them to your own purposes.

We've adapted all that Oriental foolishness to our own purposes.

And how can I adapt it to my own purposes and make lots of money?

See how Alai adapted your trick to his purposes.

Others have tried to adapt to their own purposes the theories these scientists have evolved.

Soon, however, Shakespeare began to adapt the traditional styles to his own purposes.

To stretch their limited resources, a handful of colleges have started working together to adapt technologies to their common educational purposes.