Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
procured
IPA transcription: [pɹoʊkj'ʊɹd]
Usage examples
The cave man's club made law and procured food.
At Santa Rosa we procured Indians and canoes for the Maranon.
Each book was procured because some one of the family wished to read it.
Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and himself.
He helped him, and the other day he procured him a situation with Miss Berengaria."
Where he had procured the money "Gott" only knew, or why he left the hotel in such a hurry.
He procured an introduction to her, and requested her patronage in his endeavour to discover the philosopher's stone.
In this manner I procured a very considerable quantity of fixed air, so that I judged it was all discharged from the tartar.
She took great care of his education, and when he was grown up, as he had an inclination to the sea, procured him the king's letter.
It was from this inland lake of asphalt that the material was procured to protect the New York subway tunnels from moisture, so it is said.