How to Use adjustment in a Sentence

adjustment

noun

• She made some slight adjustments to the recipe.
• We went through a period of adjustment at the new school.
• Moving from the city to the country requires an adjustment.
• The engine only needed a minor adjustment.
• The figures were calculated with no adjustment for inflation.
• The figures were calculated with no adjustments for inflation.
• The engine only needed minor adjustment.
• Still, both schools will face an adjustment in the SEC.
  — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2023
• Joseph said there won’t be a time of adjustment going from high school coaching back to college.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 7 Feb. 2023
• Rain jackets are available with a range of features, like pockets, hoods, vents, and points of adjustment.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2023
• Her biggest adjustment has been to the level of physical play.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
• And a millimeter of adjustment can change the whole expression.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• This retrograde asks you to slow down and reassess your career path, making adjustments that align with your long-term goals.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
• But in the process, a sizeable sum of money has to be paid over first, only to be received as a tax adjustment or refund months later.
  — Quartz, 9 Feb. 2023
• There is no guarantee that those factors will be enough to counteract the large amount of policy adjustment the Fed has done over the past year.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The quantum field theory framework needed some adjustment for Borinsky and Vogtmann to get the right count.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• On the rear seats there’s electrical adjustment for rake and thigh support, and the 60:40 split seats fold down electrically by a button in the trunk.
  — Mark Andrews, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2023
• Still, even with that slight market adjustment, delinquencies remain at the lowest level since the data series began in 1999.
  — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• This is the first report to reflect a new weighting adjustment by the BLS, which is now weighting consumer spending data on a single year versus every two years.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• So many of the jokes in the pilot are not mine, and that was a big adjustment.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• Plans call for new paint and tile and some unseen adjustments to the kitchen.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• Of course, these are things that will bring about adjustments.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• His streak was not triggered by any adjustments at the plate.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Klain was viewed as something between a trusty liaison and an inside-man ally in the White House, and his departure has sparked a sense of adjustment within progressive circles.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• Learning to move around the new terrain with its big hills and ponds takes adjustment.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Ede and Ravenscroft have conserved the velvet as well as made adjustments for the new Queen.
  — Maria Mercedes Lara, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
• This harness has five adjustment points for a tailored fit so your pup stays safe in the car.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024
• The union asked for a 40% hourly wage increase and a return of a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
  — Jamie L. Lareau, The Courier-Journal, 1 Sep. 2023
• The livestream hosts have been announced; the co-chairs are getting ready; and final adjustments are being made to all the looks.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 2 May 2024
• The Himalayas aren’t the only place on Earth where this adjustment of the crust is radically reshaping the land surface.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024