ADJUST in a Sentence

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97 example sentences for ADJUST, such as:

1. My eyes haven't adjusted to the dark yet.
2. Some adjustment of the lens may be necessary.
3. He raised his binoculars and adjusted the focus.
4. For a moment her mind could not adjust itself to his words.
5. I don't think the color control on this TV is properly adjusted.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADJUST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
adjust
 v.  adapt; regulate
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  The siege went on through the hot days of July, thundering days following nights of sullen, ominous stillness, and the town began to adjust itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  It was not in Carreen's delicate nature to adjust herself to change.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  For a moment her mind could not adjust itself to his words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  If they haven't adjusted to peace yet, they couldn't adjust to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  He looked blankly indulgent, and yawned, and condescended, "That's a pretty slick arrangement on the radiator, so you can adjust it at any temperature you want."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  But we heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
7  She was endeavoring to adjust the bunch of violets which had become loose from its fastening in her hair.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
8  Conditions would some way adjust themselves, she felt; but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
9  Our body is like a perfect watch that should go for a certain time; the watchmaker cannot open it, he can only adjust it by fumbling, and that blindfold.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIX
10  He did what he could in its adjustment on the couch, but the best that he could do was to cover it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
11  This adjustment, I say, must have been done, and done well; done indeed for all Time, in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  But my mind was already in revolution; my guesses and impressions were slipping and sliding to a new adjustment.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
13  Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  TABLEAUX VIVANTS depend for their effect not only on the happy disposal of lights and the delusive-interposition of layers of gauze, but on a corresponding adjustment of the mental vision.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  The liberalizing tendencies of the latter half of the eighteenth century brought, along with kindlier relations between black and white, thoughts of ultimate adjustment and assimilation.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  Some adjustment of the lens may be necessary.
17  This form is used by an individual to request an adjustment to an individual income tax return.
18  The windmill's sails are wooden vanes whose angle can be adjusted from inside the mill.
19  My eyes haven't adjusted to the dark yet.
20  I don't think the color control on this TV is properly adjusted.
21  He raised his binoculars and adjusted the focus.
22  The constant should be adjusted to reflect fairly the nature of the actual work involved.
23  The presentation of comparative figures has been adjusted to reflect the new standard.
24  A crew of assistants oiled and adjusted the release mechanism until it worked perfectly.
25  As for the stage in the public auditorium, it can easily be adjusted to accommodate from a full-scale musical production to one by a solo vocalist.
26  Several practice laps are necessary to determine what needs adjusting and what parts must be replaced.
27  They'll soon settle in - kids are very good at adjusting.
28  A case has to be made, therefore, for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers.
29  This unit auto-senses the mains voltage, and adjusts accordingly, so is most likely to benefit international travellers.
30  The camera adjusts the lens aperture and shutter speed automatically.