How to Use adoptee in a Sentence

adoptee

noun
  • For the first time, adoptees could learn the names of birth parents.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2018
  • What does bug her are movies and shows in which adoptees are other than normal kids.
    — John Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Many adoptees' biggest gripe is the money involved in the process.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
  • An adoptee wants details about the Chinese birth parents who gave her up.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The adoptee offerings don’t include traits that can be ordered a la carte.
    — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • That slip of paper contains the name of the adoptee’s birth mother as well as the name they were given at birth.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 31 May 2021
  • Demand for Chinese adoptees was rising too fast for the country to keep up.
    — Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
  • By the end of the episode, viewers learned that three of them were siblings (two fraternal twins and one adoptee).
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But the vast majority of adoptees did not pass through the state orphanages.
    — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • That said, engaging with Korean adoptees is still fairly new for me.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
  • Many of Ranum’s clients are adoptees who want to learn more about their birth family and fill in gaps in their health history.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2019
  • But there just wasn’t as much awareness about the importance of preserving an adoptee’s culture.
    — The Cut, The Cut, 21 June 2018
  • Daisy—also an adoptee—is, at one point, compared to Harry Potter.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
  • These children, like most Chinese adoptees in recent years, are believed to have special needs.
    — Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Jung said the ministry plans to extend a similar approach to lawsuits by adoptees in the future.
    — ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But due to a quirk in the current law, some international adoptees are not citizens.
    — Hanna Park, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Many adoptees are happy to live with zero knowledge of their genetic forebears and birth stories.
    — James Eli Shiffer, airmail.news, 18 May 2024
  • The paternity suit is the first to be brought by an overseas adoptee in South Korea.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2020
  • Some people are deeply offended that an adoptee would write about their experience, but those things are not going to stop me.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Zune had written about his search on Facebook, and other adoptees had started to contact him for advice.
    — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • There’s a trans influencer, a snobbish adoptee, and a supermarket clerk trying to turn her life around.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
  • This meant talking about his identities as a gay, Asian American adoptee.
    — Ben Kesslen, NBC News, 20 June 2019
  • In my life, my brother and I had an adoptee experience that was different from someone else right next to me.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Anna and Emily are the Korean adoptees of white parents.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 31 Jan. 2026
  • If the law is passed, Connecticut would become the tenth state to have unrestricted access for adult adoptees.
    — Sarah Cody, courant.com, 2 June 2017
  • The process, known in the adoptee community as coming out of the fog, can feel terrifying and unsettling.
    — Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Mans believes the Barnetts used the plot of Orphan as inspiration for how to abandon their adoptee.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Herrick spoke to The Times in 2021 about being an Asian adoptee raised by white parents.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The film explores the emotional journey unique to adopted people and the life-long lessons generations of adoptees have to offer.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Bardy said that Paws in the Park is a welcome chance to see familiar faces — gathering together past adoptees in once place.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2026

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