PROCEDURE in a Sentence

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For PROCEDURE, below is one of 51 sentences:
Within four weeks at the most he had so thoroughly got his hand in that he was conversant with Customs procedure in every detail.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROCEDURE
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procedure
 n.  act or manner of moving forward; steps taken in an action
Classic Sentence:
1  This procedure of theirs, to be sure, was very disinterested and benevolent of them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
2  Heyward had watched the whole procedure, on the part of Hawkeye, with breathless interest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
3  This procedure caused a discussion among the men.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  Within four weeks at the most he had so thoroughly got his hand in that he was conversant with Customs procedure in every detail.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
5  Pardon me," expostulated Chichikov, "but that procedure will take up a great deal of time.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
6  He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
7  It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, from the lie of yesterday.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
8  This mode of procedure was but little in accord with Javert's habits.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE
9  But had there existed in Florence some procedure whereby citizens might have been impeached, and calumniators punished, numberless disorders which have taken there would have been prevented.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
10  As a remedy for this, there is but one possible procedure.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Shortly after his separation from his wife, he began writing his first note on the new judicial procedure, the first of the endless series of notes he was destined to write in the future.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
12  You know that there are so many various opinions about the procedure that they form into a great big pile and nobody can make any sense of them.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
13  feel as if he were examining not the words of the painter but seeking out inconsistencies in the procedures of the court itself.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  The state wants to withhold from a medical procedure that appears just awful.
17  Presently people do not have the incentive to economize as they are not directly paying for the procedure.
18  There was a suspicion that this runner attempted to avoid the procedures for dope testing.
19  Training includes realistic simulation of casualty procedures.
20  The company was publicly rebuked for having neglected safety procedures.
21  The customer services department is reassessing its procedures for handling customer complaints.
22  The problem is to discover the procedures by which high-level units bring this about.
23  New timekeeping procedures had been introduced as part of an efficiency drive.
24  The study will also evaluate the assessment procedures in use and examine their impact on children and on the school more generally.
25  Please follow the proper procedures for dealing with complaints.
26  The cost-cutting measures include streamlining administrative procedures in the company.
27  Sampling procedures, then, necessarily involve a series of compromises.
28  The judge wants to see a revision of the procedures.
29  The British media have created a fierce controversy over Oxford's admission procedures and elitism in general.
30  Few medical procedures carry no risk of any kind.