How to Use process in a Sentence

process

1 of 2 noun
  • How does the election process work?
  • Learning a foreign language can be a long process.
  • Breathing and the circulation of blood are life processes.
  • We're remodeling our house. The whole process is expected to take a few months.
  • This will make the process for the rest of the weekend much smoother.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • That's the kind of process that has led us to this point.
    Michael Knight, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The group is in the process of raising funds to build the ballfield.
    The Aegis, 13 July 2018
  • Walk in the woods, process with my beloved, ask to be held.
    Ashley Judd, Marie Claire, 22 Mar. 2019
  • Set up a fan or open the doors and windows to help speed up the process.
    WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Getting drafted was just the first step in the process.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020
  • But even that process would not have made the app secure.
    Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2020
  • There have been a lot of growing pains in this process.
    J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • This is due to the processes of heating and pulling of the glass.
    Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023
  • One way to fix that is to try to some way keep them engaged in the process.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Trillions in wealth was in the process of being erased.
    oregonlive.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • At some point during this process, the salmon will have come out of the oven.
    Emma Wartzman, Bon Appetit, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Matching up shells is one of our favorite parts of the process.
    Minna Shim, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2019
  • The results of that process won't help the district in the short-term, though.
    Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Gina walked me through the process and gave me her guy who does her decks.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Gomez pulls out her phone and shows me a video demonstrating the process.
    Melissa Mora Hidalgo, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • What does the process for getting glammed up look like for each of those?
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This process began weeks before the match would be played.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The process was much more involved than hiring an artist to paint on a door.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2022
  • But the response should be: prove them wrong, in the process of science.
    Christa Marshall, Science | AAAS, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Many of us never thought at any time we had been abused during the process.
    Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2021
  • But, of course, that was not her getting ready process.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 13 May 2022
  • Each school has its own process as well as its own deadlines.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Brow serums are a true beauty breakthrough and can help speed the hair growth process along.
    Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Dec. 2018
  • But shopping for vintage jeans is a process that isn’t for the faint at heart.
    Callia Hargrove, Teen Vogue, 24 May 2018
  • There is a criminal process and there is due process for her.
    Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 18 May 2018
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process

2 of 2 verb
  • And to be able to process it in order to be able to heal.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 21 May 2021
  • Pick out the spices and process them to a fine powder in a spice grinder.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Some use the app to process their feelings on the matter.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
  • It's meant to be a shock, and then you're meant to process it.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 May 2021
  • The saliva tends to be too stringy and clogs machines used in the lab to process the test.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The family is trying to help the girls process their loss.
    Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • How agents answer and process phone calls have evolved.
    Richard Rosen, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Once home, the couple’s time to process their loss would have to wait.
    Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The injections work to break open fat cells and allow the body to process them as waste.
    Angela Lei, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • With that the preacher outlined how the island would process the tragedy.
    Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • For me, one of the gentler ways to process the events of this year, has been through art.
    Enuma Okoro, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The signup process only takes a few minutes to complete.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2022
  • How to get their hands on it; and how to process it cleanly and safely.
    Merrill Goozner, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Mark didn't have much time to process the tragedy, which is still fresh in his mind.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 19 May 2022
  • Crying allows me to process that emotion and learn from it.
    Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Then the cannabis must dry and cure for a month, be processed and shipped to dispensaries.
    Staff, cleveland.com, 12 May 2018
  • Another may need more time to process ideas and prefers to share their thoughts in writing.
    Quentin McDowell, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • Test results, which take about a week to process, have yet to confirm that.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022
  • Children need some time to process what is going to happen.
    Lynn Gardner, The Conversation, 29 Mar. 2022
  • His job was to help process the discharges of other soldiers.
    Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Children might be able to sense that something is strange, but not know how to process it.
    Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • By then, there might be anger on both sides, so give yourself time to process all of this.
    Love Letters.com, 6 July 2020
  • For many students, a bulky block of text is difficult to process.
    Brian Platzer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Maybe the high school tape didn’t show his ability to process things quickly.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Kids may need time to process their feelings alone before being open to talk more.
    Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Neely turned to art as a way to process her trauma, and some readers will find catharsis here.
    Renata Sancken, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Allow yourself some time to take it all in and process what is happening.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • Asylum cases can take years to process and be approved.
    Stephanie García, baltimoresun.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • But labs still can take days to process traditional tests.
    Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Daftari said her company is not a lab and does not process the tests.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022

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