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• Procure some regulation showcard colors in the 2-oz. bottles costing about 25c.2023, John H. De Wild, Elements of show card writing, page 6. From the entry showcard
• The mate had procured other tasties too, olives and such, for later in the evening.2011, Nick Ardley, The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler. From the entry tasty
• To procure another's tort will render the procurer jointly liable in tort.2010, Hazel Carty, “Inducing Breach of Contract”, in An Analysis of the Economic Torts, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press…. From the entry tortfeasance
• He now had a country seat at Kilmacud and women procured for him by a flashman.1998, Padraic O'Farrell, The '98 Reader, →ISBN. From the entry flashman
• Three jinriksha are procured, and we ride off to the station.1930 January 4, Ruth Downing, “Our Sunday School Missionary in Japan”, in John van Schaick, Jr., editor, The Christian Leader, volume…. From the entry jinriksha
• All departments on the Isthmus procure their supplies from either the general store or the substores.1909, Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, page 228. From the entry substore
• And other nations are now interested in procuring the V-22.2015 November 6, Gabe Ramirez, “The Osprey finds its groove ahead of ISIS mission”, in CNN. From the entry supercarrier
• She procured some rat poison, went to the spring house and put two teaspoons of the poison in some smear case.2006, Brett J. Mitchell, Triple Murder: The Crimes Committed by Celia Rose, HistoricalPreservation.org, →ISBN. From the entry smear case
• The clause made it extremely difficult for Zimbabwe's democratically elected government to procure land, even land that was unused.2001, George Alagiah, A Passage to Africa, London: Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN. From the entry unused
• Singing and dancing in the honor of Geser Khan, Horpa offers to procure one of these inconquerable swords.1930, Nicholas Roerich, “Light in the Desert”, in Shambhala, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, page 248. From the entry inconquerability
• Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich.1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan, volume…. From the entry frankfurt
• Strange copper objects found in western Manchuria and procured by the writer from an itinerant dealer in refuse-copper.1912, Robert Coventry Forsyth, editor, Shantung the Sacred Province of China, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC…. From the entry Chungshan
• The story of Kapila's birth begins with the sage Kardama, who worships Viṣṇu in the hopes of procuring a wife and children.2016 March 9, Brian Black, Laurie Patton, Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions, Routledge, →ISBN…. From the entry Kardama
• When one goes to the store to procure liquid refreshments, one does not want to be told that the only thing available is coffee.2012, Duane Andry, Blogosphere Madness: Dogmasphere 2011, page 84. From the entry liquid refreshment
• Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most utiles.2002, Louis Groarke, The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry utile
• Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?, New York, 2001, p.74. From the entry continue
• Since the Oath commemorates the loss of the palanquin, the Gbi Traditional Area decided not to procure another palanquin for the Fiagā in replacement.2000, A. Kodzo Paaku Kludze, Chieftaincy in Ghana, pages 121-122. From the entry palanquin
• Ferdinand made special efforts to procure specimens and finished Handstein; an inventory of his collection the year after his death listed some thirty-five Handstein.1999, Copper as canvas. From the entry Handstein
• It was the policy of the American army to procure voluntary labor whenever possible, but a sufficient number of volunteers was frequently not obtainable.1943, American Military Government of Occupied Germany, 1918-1920, page 199. From the entry requisition
• If Ischia could procure a well-regulated outlet after the manner of Stromboli, this danger might be averted and a more ridibund race of mortals evolved.1931, Norman Douglas, Summer Islands: Ischia and Ponza, page 19. From the entry ridibund
• He procured himself a glass of water from the sideboard, drank half of it and began to pace the room nervously as he talked.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry sideboard
• The straight and inswung feet are the most prevalent types, and no difficulty should be found in procuring shoes of either type.1922, Nursing World: Volumes 68-69. From the entry inswung
• Judd and myself, to see if we can procure headquarters at Wu-chang from which to open up Western China, as the Lord may enable us.1921, Frederick Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 256. From the entry Wu-chang
• The finest skins of this pole-cat, now nearly extinct in Great Britain, are procured from the colder parts of Russia and Siberia.1914, Herbert Greenhough Smith, The Strand Magazine, page 510. From the entry fitch
• To begin with “Le Meulage,” the arranging of the rows is all done by hand, well-rotted stable manure procured from barracks being used.1914, Mrs. C[harles] W[illiam] Earle [i.e., Theresa Earle]; Ethel Case, “June”, in Pot-pourri Mixed by Two, London: Smith, Elder & Co.…. From the entry untaken advantage of
• “You are tearing pickets from innocent fences,” said Town, and proceeded to unrail a respectable fence to procure weapons wherewith to “smash the'students' heads.”1907, Hamilton Literary Magazine - Volume 42, page 199. From the entry unrail
• The IRS won't tell you how to “unvolunteer” or how your consent was procured, because they want everyone to be indentured government slaves in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment.2020, Family Guardian Fellowship, The Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302. From the entry unvolunteer
• In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.2018, Massimo Vacchetta, Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page. From the entry hoglet
• The surgeon places a request for tissue with an eye bank expecting that high-quality corneal transplant tissue will be procured, processed, and delivered to the operating room on schedule.2009, Frederick S. Brightbill, Corneal Surgery: Theory, Technique and Tissue. From the entry eye bank
• Misha had procured a videotape of the funeral, and May and he had watched it over and over, all of which filled them both with a sense of peace.2003, Robert Alexander, chapter 8, in The Kitchen Boy, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry Peterburg
• As far as you have observed the free people of colour, have they been disposed to vagrate, except for the purpose of procuring more profitable employment?1968, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, page 29. From the entry vagrate
• Through the kindness of Charles Cookson, the English consul at Constantinople, Schliemann procured ten mancarts, unique vehicles pushed by two men and drawn by a third.1967, Lynn Poole, Gray Johnson Poole, One Passion, Two Loves: The Schliemanns of Troy, page 105. From the entry mancart
• Meals he procured at the sixpenny restaurant on the time-payment system, the consumption of meals being invariably in advance of the ratio paid for the allegedly humorous drawings.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 153. From the entry time-payment
• I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house.1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC…. From the entry production
• If there is any one thing clear in this multi-claused contract, it is that under no circumstances was the contractor authorized or permitted to procure the materials on its own.1964, The Federal reporter. Second series, volume 333. From the entry claused

Meaning of procure

1. verb To acquire or obtain.
2. verb To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
3. verb To induce or persuade someone to do something.

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How do you use procure in a sentence?

Procure is used as a verb. For example: “How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine.”

What is a short sentence with procure?

“And other nations are now interested in procuring the V-22.”

What does procure mean?

Procure means to acquire or obtain.