Adjust

//əˈd͡ʒʌst//

"Adjust" in a Sentence (16 examples)

You are a busy man, so I will adjust myself to your schedule.

You have to adjust your glasses to your eyes.

Our eyes take time to adjust to the darkness.

Please adjust the television picture.

Will you please adjust the clock? It's slow.

You will soon adjust to living in a dormitory.

Shinji found it very difficult to adjust himself to life in the new school. However, the fact that he was an EVA pilot made him popular.

As is often said, it is difficult to adjust yourself to a new environment.

Please adjust the seat to fit you.

You can adjust this desk to the height of any child.

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Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.

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.

He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.

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.

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