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

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