How to Use process in a Sentence

process

1 of 2 noun
  • How does the election process work?
  • Learning a foreign language can be a long process.
  • Breathing and the circulation of blood are life processes.
  • We're remodeling our house. The whole process is expected to take a few months.
  • That's the kind of process that has led us to this point.
    Michael Knight, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
  • This will make the process for the rest of the weekend much smoother.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Walk in the woods, process with my beloved, ask to be held.
    Ashley Judd, Marie Claire, 22 Mar. 2019
  • The group is in the process of raising funds to build the ballfield.
    The Aegis, 13 July 2018
  • The results of that process won't help the district in the short-term, though.
    Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2018
  • As the Times-Picayune tells us, the process is achingly slow.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Set up a fan or open the doors and windows to help speed up the process.
    WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • At some point during this process, the salmon will have come out of the oven.
    Emma Wartzman, Bon Appetit, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Getting drafted was just the first step in the process.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020
  • One way to fix that is to try to some way keep them engaged in the process.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • But even that process would not have made the app secure.
    Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2020
  • This is due to the processes of heating and pulling of the glass.
    Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023
  • There have been a lot of growing pains in this process.
    J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But the response should be: prove them wrong, in the process of science.
    Christa Marshall, Science | AAAS, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Trillions in wealth was in the process of being erased.
    oregonlive.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • What does the process for getting glammed up look like for each of those?
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 28 Mar. 2022
  • It’s a cliché, yes, but it’s also a process as old as time.
    New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • But, of course, that was not her getting ready process.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 13 May 2022
  • Place the pumpkin in the sun, which will help speed the composting process.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In the clip, Hall takes the hammer into her own hands to kickstart the process.
    Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Matching up shells is one of our favorite parts of the process.
    Minna Shim, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2019
  • Gina walked me through the process and gave me her guy who does her decks.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Gomez pulls out her phone and shows me a video demonstrating the process.
    Melissa Mora Hidalgo, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • Adds that the recruiting process is never over in the SEC.
    Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The block cleared Wednesday was the fifth to be cleaned and cleared since May 10, when the city began the process of closing The Zone.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • The process was much more involved than hiring an artist to paint on a door.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2022
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process

2 of 2 verb
  • It's meant to be a shock, and then you're meant to process it.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 May 2021
  • And to be able to process it in order to be able to heal.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 21 May 2021
  • Pick out the spices and process them to a fine powder in a spice grinder.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Some use the app to process their feelings on the matter.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
  • How do 12 and 15-year-old boys process that, deal with that?
    CBS News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Once home, the couple’s time to process their loss would have to wait.
    Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
  • For me, one of the gentler ways to process the events of this year, has been through art.
    Enuma Okoro, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Mail-in claims may take eight to 12 weeks to get processed.
    Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The saliva tends to be too stringy and clogs machines used in the lab to process the test.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Mark didn't have much time to process the tragedy, which is still fresh in his mind.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 19 May 2022
  • In total, these labs can process about 7,000 tests a week.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 June 2022
  • And the average time to process a loan has dropped from 41 days to less than a week.
    Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 1 July 2020
  • The family is trying to help the girls process their loss.
    Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The physical part has been a lot to process too—and easy to resent.
    Alexis Berger, SELF, 11 Apr. 2024
  • How agents answer and process phone calls have evolved.
    Richard Rosen, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • How to get their hands on it; and how to process it cleanly and safely.
    Merrill Goozner, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Paper returns can take much longer for the IRS to process.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The injections work to break open fat cells and allow the body to process them as waste.
    Angela Lei, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Sewage plants send the samples back to Biobot, where they are processed.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2020
  • With that the preacher outlined how the island would process the tragedy.
    Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • By then, there might be anger on both sides, so give yourself time to process all of this.
    Love Letters.com, 6 July 2020
  • Test results, which take about a week to process, have yet to confirm that.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022
  • The signup process only takes a few minutes to complete.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Then the cannabis must dry and cure for a month, be processed and shipped to dispensaries.
    Staff, cleveland.com, 12 May 2018
  • For a few seconds there is stunned silence as 99 founders try to process this news.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Your head will be spinning from all the gossip, so be sure to carve out time to process all the stimuli.
    Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 Sep. 2018
  • That problem is how to process the visual world around us.
    Jeffery Delviscio, STAT, 25 June 2018
  • Children might be able to sense that something is strange, but not know how to process it.
    Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • For her part, Hou sought therapy to help process the birth.
    Leah Chernikoff, Marie Claire, 10 Apr. 2020
  • In the third phase, all of the skeletons except the horses show signs of having been processed for food.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2023

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