128 examples of readjust in sentences

The club had changed hands, but the new owner had not been able to readjust all of the positions to suit him.

It would be premature to force on them the more mature idea of mercy, which would probably lead to confusion of judgement: they must be clear about the balance of things before they readjust it for themselves.

It is an easier matter for one person to readjust her living than for a whole family to change.

After five miles or so, the driver pulled up and descended to readjust his harness, whereupon I got out and asked him in the best Russian I could command: "Where are we going?"

Two or three times, on such awaking, I went to examine the metacompass, and on one occasion found it necessary slightly to readjust the helm; the stars by which I steered having moved some second or two to the right of their proper position.

Countless times he rolled out of his own bunk, heavy-eyed and stiff, to readjust the screen when it had blown down, to put more wood on his fire, to make sure that Gloria was covered and warm, sleeping heavily, and not dead.

Few, if any, men of over five-and-forty completely readjust themselves to changed conditions, however novel and challenging the changes may be, and nearly all the leading figures in these affairs are elderly men trained in a tradition of diplomatic ineffectiveness, and now overworked and overstrained to a pitch of complete inelasticity.

My bowler was knocked over my eyes, and though an officer of the boat cried the reassuring intelligence that it was a false alarmthat the gangway was "all right," and never had been anything but all right, I could not readjust my hat nor see what was going on until the fat nurse had obligingly retrieved her charge, without a word of thanks.

At first it was hard for Ellen to readjust her system of living and to accustom herself to the demands of even a moderately social life.

When she returned perhaps their lives would readjust themselvesbut for the moment he longed for some kind of benumbing influence, something that should give relief to the dull daily ache of feeling her so near and yet so inaccessible.

His first effort had been to readjust his valuesto take an inventory of them, and reclassify them, so that one at least might be made to appear as important as those he had lost; otherwise there could be no reason why he should go on living.

From behind it came the sound of chatter, and now and then a bare brown child in a scant shirt would escape, and be hurriedly pulled back with soft explosions of laughter, while a black woman came out to readjust the curtains.

The attempts of labour to readjust wages have been partially successful in spite of the eloquent protests of those great exponents of plain living, economy, abstinence, and honest, modest, underpaid toil, Messrs. Asquith, McKenna, and Runciman.

He knew that never in his life had he needed to readjust himself more than at the present moment.

He had caught the free, fearless confidence of her leap over the wheel, and her graceful abandon as she stood there, finely erect and full-curved, her head with its Greek lines thrown well back, and her strong hands raised to readjust the dusky hair that tumbled about her head like a storm-cloud.

He repelled and ignored my best friends, and as we are in every way independent of each other, he has been wise enough to avoid possible and annoying complications by standing out of my way and making it easy for me to legalize the arrangement and readjust myself completely to new conditions.

"What?" exclaimed Britt, turning upon Saunders so abruptly that the little man jumped, and immediately began to readjust his necktie.

This afternoon for the first time we could start by giving one good heave together, and so for the first time we are able to stop to readjust footgear or do any other desirable task.

"Then all we can do is to work harder than ever along the old linescut down expenses, readjust wages, stop waste."

The old mammy stooped over to readjust him in the barrow and as she did so several feet of masculine garments became visible under her short skirt.

Nevertheless he managed to readjust his clothes, his perruque, his broad-brimmed hat.

Bidette, the favorite maid, pretended to readjust a flower in her mistress's hair.

She yearned to be alone, to readjust her life somehow before she met him again.

A lad, unhorsed by sliding girths, Strains hard to readjust his seat

The other set of reformers proposed to readjust the tariff duties so as to make the protective system more consistent and more perfect.

128 examples of  readjust  in sentences