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Example sentences for "procuring food"

  • It does not appear to me that we very materially differ in our ideas of the effects of the facility or difficulty of procuring food on the profits of stock.

  • Another great want," he continues, "consists in the means of procuring food, which has diversified the forms of all species of animals.

  • Erasmus Darwin, that modification will commonly travel along three main lines which spring from the need of reproduction, of procuring food, and (Dr.

  • The origin of these different kinds of locomotion is to be found in the two great wants of animal life: 1, the means of procuring food; 2, the search after mates with a view to reproduction.

  • The Relief Committees are to exercise great care in the sale of meal or other food provided by them; such sale not to be made except in small quantities, and to persons who are known to have no other means of procuring food.

  • The natives are always looking out for opportunities of procuring food so easily, and never hesitate to eat any fish, although they may have been dead for some time.

  • A feeling of faintness came over her, and soon her dread of Armitage gave her less anxiety than her speculations regarding the problem of procuring food.

  • The problem of procuring food was no light one, and, like other shipwrecked sailors, who have had to exercise their wits, he was quick to devise ways to keep their larder supplied.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bitter grief; clear fire; corn starch; false pretences; hold property; large vessel; life freely; more have; must see; noble friend; paper cover; pollen from; poor children; procuring food; procuring them; procuring water; satisfy myself; seek for; shall probably; slow growth; still laughing; will tend; you two; you were