The difference is in ourselves, in the mental rhythm to which we unconsciously adjust the words.
Adjust the questions already suggested under Topic II, B, to narrative poetry.
There were signs of a tear-shower imminent, and Alice was at her wits' end for devices to adjust that garment of praise to fit.
With sad voices they explained their entire inability to adjust themselves to the new country and the new ways.
Before we were able to adjust our mental perspective we had passed from colonial America into a hamlet of modern Russia.
I have seen strange men and things, but what I saw on the great Mongolian plateau fairly took my breath away and left me dazed, utterly unable to adjust my mental perspective.
He is indistinguishable from the other travelers and mingles among the mafus, helping now and then to feed a horse or adjust a load.
I had tried desperately to adjust a new roll of film, but had given up in despair for it was difficult enough even to sit in the bounding car.
The spicy epigrams ended in a challenge, but Cheetham made such haste to adjust matters that a report got abroad of his having shown the white feather.
There must be some Democrats appointed toadjust European or other difficulties, even by a Republican, and you will be the prominent one.
Organized labor should give the Government the opportunity to adjust controversies before strikes occur.
A new federal naturalization law and rigid election laws have made wholesale frauds impossible; and the genius of Tammany is now attempting to adjust itself to the new immigration, the new political spirit, and the new communal vigilance.
Senator Quay told me," said Flinn, "that he would not permit us to elect the Republican candidate for mayor in Pittsburgh unless we adjust the politics to suit him.
Barrington then said that the best thing to do was to get an inventory made as quickly as possible, and then try to get hold of Simpson and see if we couldn't adjust it with him.
What are those changes in the environment to which, by direct or indirect equilibration the human organism has been adjusting itself, is adjusting itself now, and will continue to adjust itself?
So far as children are concerned, the economic tendency to adjust machine-tending to their limited strength is in some measure defeated by the growth of strong public feeling and legislative protection of younger children.
The unprecedented rapidity and irregularity of the discovery and adoption of the new methods made it impossible for the structure of industrial society to adjust itself at once to the conditions of the new environment.
When we contemplate the war on our frontiers, it may be truly affirmed that every reasonable effort has been made to adjust the causes of dissension with the Indians north of the Ohio.
The Treaty itself had waived this inquiry, and professed to adjust all controversies on this subject, without regard to the mutual complaints or pretensions of the parties.
To compose andadjust differences, whether to terminate or to prevent war.
Our interposition argues that they want judgment, and are not able to adjust their powers without the wisdom of this House to assist them; to say the least on this point, it must be deemed indelicate for us to intermeddle with them.
Each nation must adjust the forms and operations of its own government, and all others are bound to understand them accordingly.
Monica cried, covering her eyes, as the great heads were lowered toadjust the strain, and every muscle in the powerful, docile bodies writhed and bunched with the tremendous effort.
Outside, voices buzzed; but those who spoke must have stood at a distance, for I could catch no words.
She was right; for on the Sierra it seemed an expression of the Sierra; and in spite of Philip rather than because of him, it was splendid in the melancholy strength which made it a brother of mountains.
Nearly all Bohemian immigrants come to stay, and adjust themselves more or less easily to their environment.
This is a remarkable showing for people who nearly all had to adjust themselves to manual labour for which they were not physically fitted, and which they had no opportunity to perform in Russia.
Wretched would be the pair above all names of wretchedness who should be doomed to adjust by reason every morning all the detail of a domestic day.
In order that the curtain may roll up smoothly, it is best to mark straight lines with a pencil and ruler, on both roller and box, and adjustits edges carefully to these lines.
It is a matter of some difficulty to adjust these wheels, as they should not be crowded against either side of the slit, but turn easily when the boat is drawn over the floor.
We must have motif first, then technique to adapt and adjust expression and to develop facility in the active agents.
Right technical study and practice adjust the instrument in proper relations with the natural laws of its use, and establish, or deepen, the tendency to obey those laws.
She was not thinking of anything at all; she felt that for the moment everything was suspended, but that presently she would be able to adjust it all in her own mind--think it out and put it straight.
The Jackson party, or the Democratic party, must make its creed, both political and economic, and it must adjust that creed both to the Constitution and to the working of the Government.
They may accept its discipline while not being able toadjust to its rhythm.
In the military establishment an ability to adjust from job to job and to achieve greater all-around qualification by making a successful record in a diversified experience becomes a major asset in a career.
It discounts man, his plastic and impressionable nature, his response to all that goes on around him and his marked ability to adjust to any environment.
The ability to adjust is itself a landmark of success in the life of a normal individual.
Montani knew a great many things I wanted to know, but I must have time to adjust myself to the shock of his propinquity.
He also teaches young Francois to carry his little sparrow hawk so it will not be incommoded by any horse motion or be beaten upon unpleasantly by the wind, and how to adjust its hood.
They pull a dazzling white steel hauberk over Aimery's head and adjust its cape.
As our eyes adjust themselves, however, we see that we are in a huge vaulted chamber with a great fireplace, and with a kind of wooden gallery about eight feet above the floor, around the entire circuit.
The slider upon the rule serves to adjust the scale for different temperatures, and then indicates the strength of the spirit in percentages over or under proof.
It is the practice of the officers of the inland revenue to adjust Sikes's hydrometer at 62 deg.
Early in the afternoon Dawson attempted toadjust his remnant.
That stand saved the British northern flank and gave its commander time to adjust his front.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adjust" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
