How to Use provision in a Sentence

provision

1 of 2 noun

• We brought enough provisions to last the entire trip.
• I carried my provisions in one large backpack.
• He made provisions to donate part of his fortune to charity after he died.
• You should make provision for emergencies.
• Provisions should be made for regular inspections.
• That provision is set to last for five years.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
• The equal time provision did not emerge from nowhere.
  — Jay Caruso, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
• Here are some key provisions of each.
  — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 1 May 2026
• Gift-ready provisions round out the line.
  — Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
• But the provision was later stripped from the bill.
  — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
• Wasn’t there some provision for white children who crossed that street?
  — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 21 Nov. 2019
• That doesn't mean just buying milk and eggs (or some more fun provisions).
  — Katie Landeck, The Providence Journal, 23 Jan. 2026
• Those fears proved to be unfounded and the provision was left alone.
  — Kevin Crowley, David Wethe and Alex Nussbaum, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• That new provision may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back for Merck.
  — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
• Emil is walking into the house to put away provisions.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• The health care provision has not gotten better with time.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026
• Washington looks at what a provision does, not what it’s called.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 16 July 2026
• The provision remains in the bill.
  — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
• There was no provision to allow the news media or the public to see the footage.
  — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
• The new provisions were repealed in a landslide vote.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026
• The Democrats’ bill does not address that provision.
  — Ana Ceballos follow, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
• There are no provisions to replace those funding sources.
  — Betty Resch, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026
• But books are not the only items impacted by the new provisions.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Jan. 2018
• The dollar limits mean this provision won't add up to huge tax savings.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
• Lobbyists for the groups who stand to make money on this provision.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Aug. 2021
• Know your dining options onboard the train, and pack snacks and provisions just in case.
  — Linda Loyd, Philly.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Not having this provision in there wasn’t a threat to public safety.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2022
• Democrats and voting rights advocates seized on this provision in the law.
  — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2021
• But a last-minute amendment in the House replaced that provision.
  — James R Mason, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
• Is there any hope other than the provision of more patriots?
  — CBS News, 31 May 2026

provision

2 of 2 verb

• They stopped to provision the ship.
• Souleye’s method of provisioning changes by the day, by the hour.
  — Nicole Cliffe, SELF, 26 June 2019
• This was to provision a large gathering of folks with a hankering for free snacks.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
• Access describes what has been provisioned.
  — Hope Frank, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Those who stayed quickly ate all the papayas and coconut palms, forcing researchers to provision them with food.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• The press corps is well provisioned for long negotiations.
  — Dalia Abdelwahab, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
• For example, the female carpenter bee provisions her nest with nectar and pollen, lays the eggs, and then the eggs hatch in late summer to fall.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
• Back seat space is also beautifully provisioned and almost too nice to soil with family duty.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Grasslands, especially those in humid areas with good soil, provision their local food webs as richly as do forests.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
• These identities aren’t provisioned, reviewed or decommissioned in the same way as human users.
  — Syed Ali, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• How do companies now provision office space when the work habits of Americans are so uncertain?
  — Ken Ashley, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• Inside, the wasp provisions its offspring with paralyzed spiders or insects.
  — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
• Teams still provision for peak resource requirements, leaving much of their infrastructure idle.
  — Glenn Solomon, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The ship has a small but impressively provisioned boutique, filled with fine jewelry, high-end accessories, and some lovely beach and loungewear.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026
• The company also can arrange to provision your RV with groceries prior to your arrival.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2020
• Meanwhile, Hunt stays busy provisioning other people's happy events.
  — Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 July 2017
• Even once provisioned, the smartphone is not particularly useful.
  — Longreads, 14 June 2017
• Some slave owners used the peach harvest as a kind of festival for their chattel, and runaways provisioned their secret journeys in untended orchards.
  — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
• Southwest says the ramp agent had been operating a provisioning truck, which is used to supply material for flights, including food and drink.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
• Furthermore, women could obtain both these resources on their own, freeing them from relying on men to provision them and their children with high-quality food.
  — Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
• Bottom Line Gains for the bottom-line could be significant, absorbing some of the shock from the billions in loan losses provisioned by banks.
  — Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2020
• One of the most memorable challenges of his career involved provisioning for an Antarctica itinerary, where supplies had to last for months at a time.
  — Amber Love Bond, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Its immaculately neat pantry, which Lorna provisioned on an industrial scale, held enough supplies to get them through months of being cut off by fires or cyclones.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
• Swyngedouw called for greater emphasis by governments on provisioning water as a public service.
  — Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
• The company also had to provision 818 million reais due a dispute involving an offshore drilling vessel.
  — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
• The bottlenecks that exist when provisioning tools and information.
  — Fran Rosch, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• In an industry that can't abide spending a few millimeters of space on a headphone jack, slotting a plastic chip into your device just to provision you for service is unacceptable.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
• Preference sheets are refined, provisioning is tailored, itineraries are shaped, and logistics mapped out well before guests step onboard.
  — Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 16 May 2026
• For CIOs, the challenge is not simply to provision more AI capacity.
  — Kiran Palla, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• Liberty in its highest form, for Elizabeth Freeman, was ensuring that her dearest ones would always be safe, well provisioned and well loved.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2026