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

Four months before Pearl Harbor, he had been adjusting washers on the final assembly line, when the foreman switched him to a new line�hydraulic wheel retractors for aircraft.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Lover, Samuel

Bogstad had been adjusting some difficulties among his tenants, and that evening he was somewhat ill-humored.

From Added Upon A Story by Anderson, Nephi