procurable
adjective
unprocurable
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a word derived from
procurable.
Example Sentences
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The meal was not luxurious, for it consisted almost exclusively of tinned provisions, fresh meat being unprocurable in Ranga Duar—except fowls of exceeding toughness—and vegetables and bread being rare dainties.
From The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly
The "Spanish" variety was closer in grain, but is now almost unprocurable.
From Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship by W. R. (William Richard) Lethaby
He styled it "a barbarous country, where chemical spirits were so misunderstood, and chemical instruments so unprocurable, that it was hard to have any hermetic thoughts in it."
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
This is a reprint of a book that has been out of print and quite unprocurable for many years.
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
It may be said, however, that this information is not forthcoming simply because it is unprocurable.
From Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. by George Robert Stowe Mead
