ADJUSTABLE in a Sentence

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99 example sentences for ADJUSTABLE, such as:
1. My eyes haven't adjusted to the dark yet.
2. The bags have adjustable shoulder straps.
3. Some adjustment of the lens may be necessary.
4. He raised his binoculars and adjusted the focus.
5. He familiarly adjusted a ruffle upon her shoulder.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ADJUSTABLE
adjustable
 a.  capable of being changed so as to match or fit
 a.  capable of being regulated
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  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
2  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
3  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
4  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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  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
6  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
7  Mr. Washington represents in Negro thought the old attitude of adjustment and submission; but adjustment at such a peculiar time as to make his programme unique.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
8  It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  She adjusted the bonnet and smoothed back her hair and looked about the square.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  If they haven't adjusted to peace yet, they couldn't adjust to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  She paused before the mantelpiece, studying herself in the mirror while she adjusted her veil.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
12  And he saw other things too in her manner: saw how it had adjusted itself to the hidden intricacies of a situation in which, even after Mrs. Fisher's elucidating flashes, he still felt himself agrope.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
13  And having discovered the pillow, she adjusted it beneath her head.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
14  He familiarly adjusted a ruffle upon her shoulder.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
15  She adjusted it, sticking the hat pin through the heavy coil of hair with some deliberation.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  The bags have adjustable shoulder straps.
2  The dollar was therefore the key currency under the adjustable peg system.
3  Sometimes happiness is just a matter of attitude adjustment.
4  Some adjustment of the lens may be necessary.
5  She went through a period of emotional adjustment after her marriage broke up.
6  This form is used by an individual to request an adjustment to an individual income tax return.
7  The windmill's sails are wooden vanes whose angle can be adjusted from inside the mill.
8  My eyes haven't adjusted to the dark yet.
9  I don't think the color control on this TV is properly adjusted.
10  He raised his binoculars and adjusted the focus.
11  The constant should be adjusted to reflect fairly the nature of the actual work involved.
12  The presentation of comparative figures has been adjusted to reflect the new standard.
13  A crew of assistants oiled and adjusted the release mechanism until it worked perfectly.
14  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.