How to Use procedural in a Sentence

procedural

1 of 2 adjective
  • The vote was procedural, but a full vote will be held at a later date.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 19 May 2026
  • And that is why this is not just a procedural reform.
    — Terry Lierman, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But there are a number of procedural hoops to go through.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • On its face, the delay this week was procedural.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
  • If the answer is never, or no one knows, the role is procedural.
    — Tiffany Archer, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • But that process was slowed by procedural hurdles.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2026
  • So, is there a procedural path around Tillis anyway?
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The only thing that will be different are some of the procedural things that lawyers care about.
    — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Did the voting procedural changes help bring in a wider group of nominees?
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 July 2023
  • One was tossed on a procedural deadline before the court reached the merits.
    — Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • But this isn’t some by-the-numbers British procedural.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Thune took the first procedural step Monday evening.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2025
  • His pick-and-rolls are now procedural — and plentiful.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The nearly three-year dispute took a pivotal procedural step this month.
    — Charlotte Observer, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The procedural is now set to the network for a seventh and final season.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 22 June 2023
  • The number is procedural, not moral.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • The failure is moral, not procedural.
    — Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Health systems are judged on near-term margins and procedural volume.
    — Jeffrey Wessler, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The state agency sought to dismiss the legal claim on procedural grounds, but now the suit is scheduled to play out this fall.
    — Kevin Fixler september 20, Idaho Statesman, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The framers did not distribute war powers this way out of procedural fussiness.
    — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The bill was introduced earlier this year but is still very much at the procedural starting line.
    — The Hill, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But Manheim understands the art of the procedural — there are no rules!
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The bill on Wednesday night survived a procedural vote on party lines.
    — The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Dëmin echoed that while steering away from procedural details and pushing the focus to the future.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Further, the camping crackdowns tread over tricky legal and procedural grounds.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • The show is a tense medical procedural drama.
    — Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In an era of lore-heavy dramas, here’s a show with the right formula of light procedural entertainment with a killer cast.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Tanner said the bill doesn’t instruct Health and Welfare in any new procedural tasks.
    — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
  • These aren’t abstract procedural tweaks.
    — Matthew Kayser, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
  • In the legal realm, the case centers on procedural arguments.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Feb. 2026

procedural

2 of 2 noun
  • No such luck for the show, which is a standard crime procedural.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Season three brings a few offscreen changes for the third-year procedural as well.
    — Kate Stanhope, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Laurie's defense of the show was in essence a defense of the procedural.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • Yes, the procedural is kicking off the season with one of the show's reliable leads as one of its victims.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Because time is a flat circle, my daughter also loves procedurals.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Robert says their attraction to the procedural was at first a matter of circumstance.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Network comedies are almost always low-stakes shows, as are crime procedurals and most dramas.
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Furthermore, procedurals are shows that introduce a problem and solve it all within the same episode.
    — Yffy Yossifor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • As a result, British procedurals are almost always focused on puzzling out who did what.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The long-running NBC procedural wrapped the year with two cliffhangers.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Nov. 2025
  • That is truly a straight down the middle procedural, but the writing, the acting are also really great.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • While parts of the procedural are indeed filmed in Wahlberg's hometown, it's largely filmed in Toronto.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • At a glance, River could pass for another British murder-of-the-week procedural.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Showtime's signature series still stands as one of the best procedurals of the current century.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 May 2023
  • The character procedural is also a favorite among network brass.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The character procedural also is a favorite among network brass.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The 10-episode series is described as a dark comedy procedural.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The show has always been a strange hybrid of a standalone procedural and serialized, deep mythology.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 5 June 2021
  • 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
  • Many of the fan-favorite characters have reunited for this new iteration of the procedural.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Yet another long-running procedural got a new lease on life after arriving on Netflix.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Her erudite digressions and granular readings add up to a kind of literary procedural.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Pairing Peters' bright-eyed outsider with Winslet's dour local suggests a spiky procedural.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The pleasing sensation of watching disparate pieces slowly lock into place pays off like an extended procedural led by name-brand actors.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Denning had quite a career before joining the procedural, with film credits dating back to the 1930s.
    — Louis Peitzman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
  • Dick Wolf is the creator and executive producer of the procedural.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2026

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