How to Use procure in a Sentence

procure

verb
  • These Gilbert pays for and procures.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • He's also procured and sold guitars to and from all the greats.
    Erica Olsen, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Or procure three poles, tie them into a tripod, and spread butts wide so the tops are near the ground.
    Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • First, face wash, procured by her parents from Costco.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Imai needed 24 pitches to procure the first three outs.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • The drinks are procured through the local temple’s tax system.
    Geoff Childs, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
  • Universal’s way around procuring the rights?
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Shackleton reached out to the late author’s estate and sought to procure the rights.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Young required just 62 pitches to procure his first 18 outs.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
  • When citizenship is procured by fraud, the law requires that it be revoked.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And not getting an invite doesn’t mean Harry couldn’t just procure his own ticket.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 8 June 2026
  • Like any good quest, there were obstacles to overcome, and in this case, Chinese visas to procure.
    Jake Emen, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Both attorneys now work for different law firms when they were first procured for the case but have since moved to other firms.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Diving, spearfishing, and archery are just a few of the tasks ahead of the chefs who want to procure ingredients for their dishes.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The venue was able to procure suppliers through its distributor.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 10 May 2026
  • The session also showed a short clip of Gunn trying to procure a gun as well as the first seven minutes of the movie.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2026
  • All components can be procured through e-commerce, and the robot is built with a minimal number of parts.
    Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The list changes daily, depending on which ingredients are in season and what the chefs are able to procure.
    Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Dame asks Ava’s grifter castmate, Charlie, of all people, to procure a liquor license.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That conviction was for procuring a child for prostitution.
    Sarah Digregorio, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The Navy did not disclose the contract’s value or the exact quantity to be procured.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The flowers must be procured, the tents put up in the garden, and the finishing touches added around the home before her guests arrive.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
  • But Merino travels back home to procure her raw materials.
    María Teresa Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Building the port with funding offered by the government or procured from banks might be more lucrative than running it.
    M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Social media has even made the bags so popular that procuring one has become next to impossible.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
  • With mint, detach three-inch terminal pieces and, in the case of lemongrass, entire stalks may be used, whether store bought or procured from a friend’s garden.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Boats four through eight will be procured at a rate of one submarine per year over the next five years, with the program costing about $62 billion.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026
  • Poppy shows up with fresh hives, but refuses to procure an epipen because of the expense (ostensibly).
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Berkowitz represented the seller and procured the buyer.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2026
  • If Miami-Dade wants to buy new train cars, Brightline will be the one to procure them on the county’s dime.
    Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 16 June 2026

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