Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

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.