Definition: 1. Continue with one's activities. 2. Move ahead; travel onward in time or space. 3. Follow a procedure or take a course. 4. Follow a certain course. 5. Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.
Use 'proceed' in a sentence:
1. What happens when one clicks on "Proceed to Checkout" on a website after browsing through their offerings?
2. The preparations for the reception of his Royal Highness proceeded.
3. For my purposes, a club definitely has to be registered before I can proceed further.
4. Readers proceed at their own pace.
5. Geographic isolation also can proceed slowly, over great spans of time.
6. So all could have a turn in the most favourable positions, and proceed to London.
7. Actions proceed from opinions.
8. The ideas were not new. Their development had proceeded steadily since the war.
9. Completely Geographic isolation also can proceed slowly, over great spans of time.
10. This can be done if you proceed as follows.
11. They had to take the finely balanced decision to let the visit proceed.
12. The meeting will take place [proceed] as planned.
13. Some "expert amateurs" in the satellite game could provide some inspiration for how to proceed responsibly.
14. He would sail to New Zealand, then reach Antarctica in February, during the southern summer, and then proceed to the pole the following spring.
15. It hasn't stopped the British Navy proceeding on its merry way.
16. That's not a bad way to proceed, just somewhat different.
17. Before proceeding any further, cut off a small bit of the meat and taste it.
18. He proceeded to tell me of my birth.
19. The top three US auto-makers have decided not to proceed with plans to file a trade complaint against Japanese auto-makers.
20. I gulped, and then proceeded to tell her the whole story.
21. He went to her and stood a moment, not knowing exactly how to proceed.
22. She produced a bundle of notes and proceeded to count out one hundred and ninety-five pounds.
23. We should proceed in an orderly way, advance step by step in our studies, and not reach for what is beyond our grasp.
24. We're not sure whether we still want to proceed with the sale.
25. How could you possible proceed?
26. Efforts to reform the Interior Ministry have not yet proceeded very far.
27. Having said she wasn't hungry, she then proceeded to order a three-course meal.
28. Don't wait until you feel 100 percent confident before you proceed.
29. Until these conditions are met we cannot proceed with the sale.
30. They have to proceed at a measured pace.
31. The marchers proceeded slowly along the street.
32. She climbed the steps and proceeded along the upstairs hallway.
33. It seemed a sensible and methodical way of proceeding.
34. How does your reading proceed?
35. The trial has been delayed until November because the defence is not ready to proceed.
36. Each learner can proceed at his own speed.
37. The question about the rate of evolution must now be turned around: does evolution ever proceed gradually, or does it always occur in short bursts?
38. How did you expect us to proceed on such a perilous expedition, through unknown terrain.
39. It was so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it was quite fatiguing to proceed.
40. We proceeded to drift on up the river.
41. In November 2013, after an unnecessary round of additional consultation, health minister Jane Ellison said the government was minded to proceed after all.
42. When we're too collaborative, we want everyone to agree with a decision before we proceed.
43. The best way to proceed is by a process of elimination.
44. His lectures always proceed from the close to the distant and from the elementary to the profound.
45. Passengers for Rome should proceed to Gate 32 for boarding.
46. He asked for ice for his whiskey and proceeded to get drunk.
47. Work is proceeding slowly.
48. She sold her car and bought a piano with the proceeds.
49. The proceeds from the concert will go towards famine relief.
50. The proceeds of the concert will go to charity.
51. He proceeds to take apart every preconception anyone might have ever had about him.
52. Proceeds from the concert will go to charity.
53. He proceeded to give Dan directions to the computer room.
54. The teacher should encourage the child to proceed as far as he can, and when he is stuck, ask for help.
55. The biological project is now in trouble, you know, my colleague and I have completely different ideas about how to proceed.
56. He then proceeded to play for more than two hours, reprising every one of his hits.
57. We now proceed to the next item on the agenda.
