How to Use prepare in a Sentence

prepare

verb

• The teacher prepared the students for the test.
• The nurses prepared the patient for surgery.
• Your room is being prepared now and should be ready soon.
• She tried to prepare herself for bad news.
• The sailors are preparing themselves for a long voyage.
• We don't have much more time to prepare ourselves for their arrival.
• Farmers are busy preparing the soil for planting.
• The pharmacist prepared the prescription.
• They'll be arriving soon. We don't have much more time to prepare.
• What was the process like in terms of preparing for that role?
  — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
• Add them to your cart now to prepare for the season ahead.
  — Carly Kulzer, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
• But Biden had been in the country and preparing for the event for 12 days.
  — Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
• Tell me about preparing to go on the road with the Pretenders.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2023
• The injury derailed his chance to prepare for the draft.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2022
• But there’s still a lot to prepare for in those second, third, and fourth years!
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• The calf swam up in the background, just as Iliya was preparing to head back to the surface to take a breath.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Christmas, on the other hand, takes weeks and months to prepare for.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
• V-Day quotes and captions queued up for your IG post, there’s a lot to prepare for.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 16 Dec. 2022
• This is a fair period in which the next steps can be prepared.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
• But if the meals are too easy to make, customers will just prepare them from scratch rather than from a box.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 3 May 2023
• In preparing to bring that story to the big screen, Miller wrote not just one movie, but three.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
• That game was played on a Thursday night, so K.C. has had extra time to prepare for the Colts.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2022
• Throw the long shift lever into high, stab the throttle and prepare to take off like a rocket.
  — Harvey Briggs, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2022
• When prepared and consumed in the right way, potatoes can help with weight loss goals.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 12 July 2023
• With the pesky Knights dispatched, the Wildcats now prepare to head overseas.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 30 Nov. 2022
• Three things to watch as the Aggies prepare to build on a surprising 2021.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
• Krumholtz felt prepared, having read the book on which the film was based in addition to studying the script.
  — Stuart Miller, Variety, 7 Jan. 2024
• Now may be the time for Lincoln to prepare to produce such a model once again.
  — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
• Workers have been preparing for the meeting of cardinals, set to begin May 7, which will end with the election of a new pope.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 May 2025
• The region famously prepares its tea through pan frying and steaming methods, too, which yields unique and vivid expressions.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 4 May 2025