How to Use provision in a Sentence

provision

1 of 2 noun
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  • We brought enough provisions to last the entire trip.
  • I carried my provisions in one large backpack.
  • He made provisions to donate part of his fortune to charity after he died.
  • You should make provision for emergencies.
  • Provisions should be made for regular inspections.
  • There was no provision to allow the news media or the public to see the footage.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Those fears proved to be unfounded and the provision was left alone.
    — Kevin Crowley, David Wethe and Alex Nussbaum, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • That provision led critics to say the bill opens the way to late-term abortions.
    — Randall Chase, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
  • The provision does not apply to any deal made after that.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • That new provision may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back for Merck.
    — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
  • The judge halted enforcement of those provisions of the law.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • That means that all the law’s provisions remain in effect.
    — Mark Sherman, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2018
  • But books are not the only items impacted by the new provisions.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Jan. 2018
  • One of the provisions is evaluating the future of team golf.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Another provision of the bill ends once and for all the practice of lunch shaming.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • An obscure provision of the law shouldn’t be taken as a license to ignore the rest of it.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Lobbyists for the groups who stand to make money on this provision.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Aug. 2021
  • That initiative would include some of the same provisions as the current bill.
    — Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 22 June 2018
  • Know your dining options onboard the train, and pack snacks and provisions just in case.
    — Linda Loyd, Philly.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Democrats and voting rights advocates seized on this provision in the law.
    — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Wasn’t there some provision for white children who crossed that street?
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 21 Nov. 2019
  • That provision has been the background music to Trump's life.
    — Russ Buettner, Star Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The provision was omitted from last year’s omnibus bill.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But the deal fell apart after it was amended to include the child-sharing provision.
    — Dara Kam, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The dollar limits mean this provision won't add up to huge tax savings.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
  • One provision wholly rejects ballots cast in the wrong precinct.
    — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
  • As part of this deal, there were two important provisions.
    — Martin Plaut, Quartz Africa, 9 July 2019
  • The district has mostly used this provision to restart struggling schools.
    — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct. 2017
  • This provision is now known as the foreign emoluments clause.
    — Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Not having this provision in there wasn’t a threat to public safety.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2022
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provision

2 of 2 verb
  • They stopped to provision the ship.
  • Souleye’s method of provisioning changes by the day, by the hour.
    — Nicole Cliffe, SELF, 26 June 2019
  • This was to provision a large gathering of folks with a hankering for free snacks.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Those who stayed quickly ate all the papayas and coconut palms, forcing researchers to provision them with food.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • My mother had provisioned herself with two snowsuits, a hefty flask of vodka and five quart bags of homemade dehydrated fruit.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
  • How do companies now provision office space when the work habits of Americans are so uncertain?
    — Ken Ashley, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The company also can arrange to provision your RV with groceries prior to your arrival.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Back seat space is also beautifully provisioned and almost too nice to soil with family duty.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Some slave owners used the peach harvest as a kind of festival for their chattel, and runaways provisioned their secret journeys in untended orchards.
    — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Some slave owners used the peach harvest as a kind of festival for their chattel, and runaways provisioned their secret journeys in untended orchards.
    — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
  • But biographies, like translations, are rarely provisioned to last forever, for they reflect the world of their authors as much as their subjects.
    — Morris Dickstein, New York Times Book Review, 1 Feb. 1998
  • Skinny, poorly nourished plains females, which have fewer resources to provision their eggs and tadpoles, seem more hot to trot with outsiders.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
  • Southwest says the ramp agent had been operating a provisioning truck, which is used to supply material for flights, including food and drink.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
  • Bottom Line Gains for the bottom-line could be significant, absorbing some of the shock from the billions in loan losses provisioned by banks.
    — Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2020
  • Under-provisioned banks are also unwilling to lend more, which means investment by private companies may shrink this year.
    — Dhwani Pandya, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Even once provisioned, the smartphone is not particularly useful.
    — Longreads, 14 June 2017
  • Such responses reflect the lack of well-provisioned, comfortable women’s spaces in many mosques and the scarcity of women in mosque leadership positions.
    — Anna Piela, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
  • Furthermore, women could obtain both these resources on their own, freeing them from relying on men to provision them and their children with high-quality food.
    — Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • Tens of thousands of rival forces still must be knitted together into a single army, a process that the U.N. and others have called behind schedule and poorly provisioned.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • Few modern eaters consume such a wide range of plants, fruits, and animals, even when provisioned by a vast international or multi-ethnic marketplace.
    — Donna R. Gabaccia, We Are What We Eat, 1998
  • Then came the letters carried out by the teams of divers who took oxygen, food and medicine to the boys’ refuge as experts pondered whether to dive them out or provision them for months while the monsoon season continues until at least late October.
    — Kaweewit Kaewjinda and Stephen Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
  • Then came the letters carried out by the teams of divers who took oxygen, food and medicine to the boys' refuge as experts pondered whether to dive them out or provision them for months while the monsoon season continues until at least late October.
    — Kaweewit Kaewjinda and Stephen Wright, Houston Chronicle, 10 July 2018
  • As the cubs began to feed more regularly on meat, she provisioned them with hares, hyraxes, an Egyptian mongoose, and guinea fowl.
    — John A. Cavallo, Natural History, February 1990
  • Catering is their new frontier, provisioning parties and events throughout the Southeast under the leadership of Katie Wilson.
    — Eric Velasco, al, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Its pleas were usually unheeded, leaving the Confederation badly in arrears and unable to provision the army.
    — Jay Cost, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The state webpage notes provisioning boating services or supplies does not constitute critical care infrastructure work.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Today, many modern birds, mammals, and lizards provide a range of support, from protecting eggs and juveniles to actively provisioning their young and showing them how to forage.
    — Tim Vernimmen, National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Meanwhile, Hunt stays busy provisioning other people's happy events.
    — Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 July 2017
  • On Tuesday, Russians were already sleeping in bunks at bases that American troops had spent years building and provisioning only to abandon them in haste just hours earlier.
    — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The company also had to provision 818 million reais due a dispute involving an offshore drilling vessel.
    — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017

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