How to Use proceeding in a Sentence

proceeding

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  • The secretary kept a record of the proceedings at the meeting.
  • The proceedings of the conference will be published.
  • She started the proceedings with a brief welcoming speech.
  • Again proceedings were rescheduled, and again the rats missed their date with the law.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Many of the cast members and crew gathered to watch the proceedings.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The proceedings are expected to make their way back to the Supreme Court.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This has meant that her rent has not been paid, and eviction proceedings are in the works.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • Trump appealed, and Chutkan paused all proceedings in the case.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In the brief proceedings, a judge set his trial date to begin on Aug. 3.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • The loan default means the city could seize the land through a foreclosure proceeding.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The scare didn’t delay the start of court proceedings, and Engoron didn’t mention it in court.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The judge and Greenfield have routinely passed each other notes about the proceedings over the course of the trial.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The two-week proceeding is set to begin Aug. 14 and will take place at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 June 2023
  • The recordings of the entire Auschwitz trial are on YouTube, and Stark watched all of the proceedings while reading the trial transcripts.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The next court date on the divorce proceedings is April 30, while the criminal case is scheduled to return to court in late May.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The United States Supreme Court threw out the death sentence, called it a kangaroo-court proceeding.
    — John J. Lennon, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
  • One year later, Moore shared that Daly had been holding up the divorce proceedings.
    — Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Crenshaw-Dickson joined the first-stringers at right tackle later in the proceedings.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The case will return to court July 22 for further proceedings.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The proceedings had already run more than two weeks and had been expected to keep going until at least next week.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Georgia is one of the few states that publishes the names of jurors for the sake of transparency in criminal proceedings.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The proceeding is set to take place at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, where Cannon sits.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 11 July 2023
  • Sophie is making this claim only to move the divorce proceedings to the UK and to remove the children from the U.S. permanently.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The proceedings are expected to begin with a quorum call, a headcount that helps the clerk orient before the voting starts.
    — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But pretrial proceedings for four men accused of conspiring in the plot are now in their second decade.
    — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • That quote did not reflect what happened during proceedings in her court.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 July 2023
  • However, the writers and actors strikes could delay the awards proceedings.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
  • Since then, lawyers on both sides have battled in various court proceedings to gain leverage.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • He is scheduled to return to court May 13 for further proceedings in his criminal case.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
  • He was sentenced to six months of probation, and agreed to testify in other proceedings.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024

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