Sentences with adjust
ad·just
A a - We have been preparing our fighters to adjust themselves to civil society. [VERB noun + to]
- To attract investors, Panama has adjusted its tax and labour laws. [VERB noun]
- The car is easier to drive since the clutch was adjusted.
- Going to a new school can be difficult, but the kids will eventually adjust.
- She adjusted her head scarf fussily. [VERB noun]
- He stopped to try to adjust his vision to the faint starlight. [VERB noun]
- She adjusted the car seat so she could reach the pedals.
- It's hard to adjust myself to the idea that she's gone.
- To adjust the television
- To adjust a watch
- I adjusted the volume on the radio.
- I have tried using the auto adjust feature on my television.
- To adjust accounts
- To adjust differences
- A man and his dray horse stop to adjust their load outside the gates of the Guinness Brewing Company in Dublin.
- The insurer automatically adjusts the amount of insurance each year to keep up with rising construction costs in your area.The total output of goods and services, adjusted for inflation, rose at a 1.7 percent annual rate.If you adjust the amount of a transaction or account, you change it.
- ~ a claim~ a premium
- To adjust expenses to income.
- To adjust an instrument.
- To adjust our differences.
- They had no problems in adjusting at the new school.
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1. 25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community. She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.