adjust
verb (used with object)
to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate.
had been adjusting
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past perfect progressiveof adjust.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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For the previous decade, The A.P. had been adjusting to an increasing demand for entertainment-related news.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2012
So tech shares had been adjusting even before the earthquake.
From Forbes ● May 24, 2011
The Major all this time had been adjusting his spectacles on his nose, unconscious, poor old gentleman, that Dick, according to promise, had abstracted the glasses from them that morning.
From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Samuel Lover
Shirley had been adjusting the mechanism, and the wheels had ceased their whirring.
From The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball
All her life, it seemed to Corinna, she had been adjusting the difficulties and smoothing out the destinies of other persons.
From One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
