How to Use prepare in a Sentence

prepare

verb

• The teacher prepared the students for the test.
• The nurses prepared the patient for surgery.
• Your room is being prepared now and should be ready soon.
• She tried to prepare herself for bad news.
• The sailors are preparing themselves for a long voyage.
• We don't have much more time to prepare ourselves for their arrival.
• Farmers are busy preparing the soil for planting.
• The pharmacist prepared the prescription.
• They'll be arriving soon. We don't have much more time to prepare.
• But Biden had been in the country and preparing for the event for 12 days.
  — Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
• Tell me about preparing to go on the road with the Pretenders.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2023
• But there’s still a lot to prepare for in those second, third, and fourth years!
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• The calf swam up in the background, just as Iliya was preparing to head back to the surface to take a breath.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Christmas, on the other hand, takes weeks and months to prepare for.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
• V-Day quotes and captions queued up for your IG post, there’s a lot to prepare for.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 16 Dec. 2022
• But if the meals are too easy to make, customers will just prepare them from scratch rather than from a box.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 3 May 2023
• In preparing to bring that story to the big screen, Miller wrote not just one movie, but three.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
• When prepared and consumed in the right way, potatoes can help with weight loss goals.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 12 July 2023
• Krumholtz felt prepared, having read the book on which the film was based in addition to studying the script.
  — Stuart Miller, Variety, 7 Jan. 2024
• The rest of the industry needs to hope that Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, used the good times to prepare for a black swan.
  — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023
• My whole life is made up of moments that have prepared me for Survivor.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2024
• For now, both sides appear prepared for a high-stakes game of chicken.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• The condition of the bricks and missing mortar on the building called for a lot of prep work to prepare the surface.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
• The larger purpose, for her, was to prepare for next month’s Sevilla Marathon in Spain.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2023
• In the meantime, Hudson is preparing to watch the results come in.
  — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
• The couple took Romeo's bassinet out of storage to prepare themselves for the newborn.
  — Tamara Palmer, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2023
• There are many ways to try to prepare for that influx of people that will need water.
  — Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
• There was a top-secret code name on the sides Ruth Bradley was sent to prepare for an audition.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
• As millions of Americans prepare for Christmas travel, winter weather is expected to create chaos on the roads and in the skies.
  — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
• The stock market rally will likely continue in 2025, but investors should consider preparing for the day when the move goes too far, according to UBS.
  — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Jan 2025