How to pronounce adoptive

Usage examples

• They have since become adoptive parents of three.
• He did statues of E. W. Marland and his two adoptive grown children.
• Allen was given his adoptive father's name and became Allen Ellsworth Ludden.
• His adoptive parents both unsuccessfully ran for local office.
• The girl's aunt-and adoptive mother-has made a stunning deathbed confession.
• Duffy remained interested in both the politics of his adoptive country and of Ireland.
• Her adoptive parents had four children before adopting her, so she has four siblings.
• His adoptive parents belonged to a Salvation Army church.