provisioning

Example Sentences

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De Joode confirmed that this reprovisioning had begun in February 2013.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2013

I had joined the yacht at Mystic, Conn., a fine port of call for cruisers who want to mix shopping and reprovisioning with the delights of Mystic Seaport.

From Time Magazine Archive

After reprovisioning his two ships La Perouse sailed out of Lituya Bay, never to return.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The lieutenant went out to attend to matters pertaining to reprovisioning the frigate, and Monsieur de Chemerant and the governor were alone.

From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène

The sailors and the priests and their converts, remembering that Heaven helps those who help themselves, had sallied out and were reprovisioning themselves and making good their losses.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)