How to Use procurer in a Sentence

procurer

noun

• In two hours, unbeknownst to her procurers, the new girl was picked up in a general pross bust.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• Sakaguchi confessed to serving as a procurer, bringing the victim to Sono and leaving her alone with him.
  — William Earl, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
• Those storms, says Esther von Roehm, a timber procurer who worked for the local magnate that owned the spruce, were traumatic.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
• This uncertainty has led to most people playing it safe with Ederson as their City clean sheet procurer.
  — SI.com, 25 July 2019
• Kennedy was named for Eddie Moore, a longtime family factotum (and sometime procurer for Joe).
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• Egypt’s state procurer of wheat, which normally buys heavily from Russia and Ukraine, had to cancel two orders in less than a week: one for overpricing, the other because a lack of companies offered to sell their supplies.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2022
• Some procurers, however, may take deeper cuts of skin that are more disfiguring, and may expose muscles, fascia and other structures.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
• Ghislaine Maxwell was, according to her accusers, Jeffrey Epstein's protector and procurer, his girlfriend and his madam.
  — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2019
• But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the procurers, has never revoked any operating charters.
  — Lenny Bernstein, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
• He was convicted for his role as, essentially, a procurer for navigational equipment, including a boat, to be used in al-Qaida missions attacking commercial ships in and around the Arabian Peninsula waters.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 2 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024