How to Use procedural in a Sentence

procedural

1 of 2 adjective

• George cleared a procedural vote 92 to 1 in the last vote Wednesday night.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
• The only thing that will be different are some of the procedural things that lawyers care about.
  — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The procedural is now set to the network for a seventh and final season.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 22 June 2023
• The case is remembered for its procedural twists and turns.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Did the voting procedural changes help bring in a wider group of nominees?
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 July 2023
• Gaetz has for months threatened to use the procedural tool — called a motion to vacate — to try to strip McCarthy of his office.
  — Farnoush Amiri, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
• What will the Supreme Court be looking at—both the procedural issues and the substantive issues?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• There’s even talk that the conservative chaos agents could fail to provide the procedural votes necessary for the House to even debate the bill.
  — Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• There are procedural safeguards to prevent misuse or abuse of the protest system.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2024
• The result has been to tie the debate up in a procedural knot with little chance of progress on a legally binding mandate anytime soon.
  — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• An earlier version of this story had the results for a procedural vote, not the final vote.
  — Cindi Andrews, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
• That’s exactly what happened last week, when Matt Gaetz and his allies on the right took to the House floor to side with Democrats on a series of procedural votes, grinding the chamber to a halt.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
• In 2019, the hit procedural drama Suits aired its series finale after nine seasons on the air.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 27 Aug. 2023
• But the new bill failed to clear a series of procedural hurdles in the Senate in June 2007 and never received a final vote in either chamber.
  — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• Democrats are trying to hold this last procedural vote open for longer to give more Democrats time to return to the Capitol, according to a Democratic aide.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• It is expected to be back before the House next week, after Democrats stalled it with procedural moves on Tuesday and Friday.
  — Taylor Goldenstein, San Antonio Express-News, 5 May 2023
• Majority Leader Chuck Schumer set the procedural wheels in motion to tee up votes on a package of three spending bills on the floor as soon as next week.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Tierney said the next stages in the case in court will include procedural issues and discussions of discovery.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• In all, 11 senators joined Sanders in the procedural vote, mostly Democrats from across the party's spectrum, while 72 opposed.
  — CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024
• It was assumed that this was merely a procedural formality like much of the monarch’s role in day-to-day governance.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• Besides the deep sense of violation the botanists felt, this also posed a procedural problem.
  — Johanna Chisholm, WIRED, 8 July 2023
• Thus began a long legal battle that has already reached the Supreme Court once before, where the court sided with the Sacketts on a procedural question.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Since then, the 64-year-old actress has made a career out of playing stern characters in procedural dramas.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 16 July 2023
• The news comes a week after it was announced that Jeffrey Donovan would not be back for the new season of the long-running (and recently revived) procedural.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• Last April, the court rejected procedural objections from Caracas, paving the way for the justices to hear arguments from both sides.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• But a single senator can throw up procedural roadblocks that push the government past the deadline and force a vote days later.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• But in the first round, absenteeism and a slew of TSE procedural problems resulted in only 1,443 people being able to cast votes.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Further, the camping crackdowns tread over tricky legal and procedural grounds.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• There are procedural answers to this question that Schwartz gives me—for example, he was allowed to wear a suit during the trial and began wearing prison clothes once convicted.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
• With those procedural issues settled, Judge Pittman ruled on the case in November — and sided decisively with Sony.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2024

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procedural

2 of 2 noun

• No such luck for the show, which is a standard crime procedural.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• Even the rapid-fire credits sequence that opens the film was meant to evoke the tough-guy procedurals of yesteryear.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• Season three brings a few offscreen changes for the third-year procedural as well.
  — Kate Stanhope, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2017
• Alan Cumming is the draw in this rote CBS procedural, which gives him a lot of hats to wear and a license to be eccentric.
  — Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
• In between are home-spun riffs on soap operas, procedurals, foreign shows, and the ’80s sitcom Night Court.
  — Brandon R. Reynolds, Los Angeles Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017
• If the procedural is set in London, Wales, or Edinburgh, the locale will be made to look depressing.
  — Paul Rudnick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• Robert says their attraction to the procedural was at first a matter of circumstance.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
• In January, the actor stepped away from the NBC procedural to deal with a personal matter.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• The show operates as a kind of Swiss army procedural, and each episode has the potential to ricochet in just about any direction.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
• To be a network police or medical procedural in the past decade is to want for a companion series.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022
• Keep scrolling for every acting role the star has held in the past. Kardashian made her acting debut as a femme fatale on the blockbuster procedural in Dec. 2009.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Although it was born out of a legal procedural, the show tackles present day topics and focuses on three female leads.
  — Alicia Kortendick, cleveland, 16 Mar. 2020
• The procedural has also been renewed for Season 5 and Season 6.
  — oregonlive, 17 May 2022
• All the elements are there, mostly because CBS knows how to do these efficient procedurals in its sleep.
  — Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
• Lethal Weapon joins a retooled slate at Fox that focuses on broad comedy and procedurals.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2018
• The 10-episode series is described as a dark comedy procedural.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Jan. 2022
• As a result, British procedurals are almost always focused on puzzling out who did what.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• Showtime's signature series still stands as one of the best procedurals of the current century.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• Tension and deception pump through the veins of this breakneck procedural about a British internal-affairs unit, and no show does cliffhangers better.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• Vegas premiered in October and served as a sequel of the popular crime procedural, which has also had spinoffs based in Miami and New York.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• Martin's Charles is a former TV star -- his history with a crime procedural comes in handy -- who has essentially become a recluse.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
• Thus, most campaigns and congressional offices these days are more tightly scripted than a prime-time crime procedural on CBS.
  — Graham Vyse, The New Republic, 25 May 2018
• Many of the fan-favorite characters have reunited for this new iteration of the procedural.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 24 Nov. 2022
• Network comedies are almost always low-stakes shows, as are crime procedurals and most dramas.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• The popular procedural, which ended in 2020, has been batted around the internet and beyond, as fans and cast alike clamor for more of the Behavioral Analysis Unit.
  — Amanda Taylor, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2022
• As with crime-solving Holmes, mental brilliance is the superpower displayed on many a TV procedural.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
• The 6-episode procedural is directed by Matteo Rovere and Letizia Lamartire.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023
• But sources say that Corman and Ord crafted a legal procedural that did not resemble the Netflix version, known for its action and violence.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023
• Moreover, procedurals require a deft balance: An episode centers on the drama surrounding the case (or disease or disaster) of the week, as tackled by characters that have ongoing plotlines and deep backstories.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
• Parents have stopped watching CBS’s procedurals and started watching Netflix’s.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024