unadjustable
IPA: ʌnʌdʒˈʌstɪbʌɫ
adjective
- Not adjustable; that cannot be adjusted.
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Examples of "unadjustable" in Sentences
- An illusion for remember their complex unadjustable eye.
- The seats are narrow and too flat and the steering wheel roughly the size of that found on an ocean-going yacht (and unadjustable).
- Years afterward, when he went back to St. Regis ', he seemed to have forgotten the successes of sixth-form year, and to be able to picture himself only as the unadjustable boy who had hurried down corridors, jeered at by his rabid contemporaries mad with common sense.
- Yonder in the parlor with the Ducatels, ignorant of the poet's lines as they, the two aunts -- those two consciously irremovable, unadjustable, incarnated interdictions to their niece's marriage -- saw the primrose, the "business," as the pair in the bower thought they saw it themselves.
- The capacities of the market-basket, as then and there revealed, are prodigious, rivalling those of the trunk of travel; and yet out of the cover will still protrude the legs of unadjustable "broilers" and the green fringes of garden-stuff, and all this not counting in the oyster-pail, or the great watermelon which has to be carried separately by its wooden handle.
- North-North-West, which was too shy a wind for us with our unadjustable substitute for a sail; and with the knowledge that unless the schooner happened to be bound in our direction we should miss her, and all our efforts would be thrown away, I dropped insensible in the cockpit and so remained for a full hour or more, despite the efforts of the others to revive me.
- Deena was too superior a woman not to be ashamed of such thoughts, but the repression of her married life had developed a morbid sensitiveness, and she was always trying to adjust the unadjustable -- Simeon's small economies to her own ideas of personal dignity; she hardly realized how much the desire to live fittingly in their position had to do with her wish to earn an income.
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