unprocurable
IPA: ʌnprʌkjˈʊrʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Unable to be procured.
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Examples of "unprocurable" in Sentences
- Consequently his excellent version is caviaire to the general — practically unprocurable.
- Old Pete continued to press for his plan until the second week in March, when he concluded that the animals and forage were unprocurable.
- But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable.
- If they are unprocurable in your district you can improvise by attaching a small square of waxed paper to the end of the handle of a wooden spoon, using a dab of royal icing.
- But if there is an absolute necessity for their mention, a chosen few might hear them in a mystery, and they should sacrifice not a common [Eleusinian] pig, but some huge and unprocurable victim; and then the number of the hearers will be very few indeed.
- Hesiod, who not only tell lies but bad lies; stories about Uranus and Saturn, which are immoral as well as false, and which should never be spoken of to young persons, or indeed at all; or, if at all, then in a mystery, after the sacrifice, not of an Eleusinian pig, but of some unprocurable animal.
- While he lay helpless and suffering representatives of the police force visited the spot and the sick man was taken by steamer to a hospital, where he passed away — peradventure, in antagonism to his own personal belief, to that “good place” fancied by some of his countrymen, where tucker is plentiful and opium and rum unprocurable.
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