How to Use rehearse in a Sentence

rehearse

verb
  • The band stayed up late rehearsing for the big show.
  • He rehearsed his dance moves in front of the mirror.
  • We were allowed to watch the director rehearse the dancers.
  • The orchestra is rehearsing a piece by Schumann.
  • Getting to rehearse with the band for the first time was easy.
    Kolby Cooper, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The first school number took about a week just to rehearse.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Dancers must be available to rehearse from 9 to 11 a.m.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Michael could come to work and just know how to hit those marks and do that line, and rehearse and show up.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Don’t just rehearse the same old scripts; send some notes to the writers’ room.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The play was cast, rehearsed, and produced in three weeks from start to finish.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Buddy Guy is maybe just a year or two too old to need to rehearse to play blues.
    Bart Bull, SPIN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Was there time to rehearse? Page: No, [laughs] and that was the part that was fascinating to me.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
  • So due to the lack of time to rehearse, where did your inspiration stem from?
    Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The entirety of the Rolling Stones once spent five weeks there rehearsing.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Yes, a few shots were not made in the take that had been rehearsed, but Bythewood is happy with the results.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 July 2023
  • But rehearsing for the show has been anything but a horror show.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The writers create the plays overnight and then the cast comes back together on Oct. 23 to rehearse ahead of the performance that evening.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Doucouré instead told them the whole story from start to finish and would rehearse each scene one by one.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The director said Heard stayed late on set to rehearse extra.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • While some of Bedrock’s clientele will find new places to rehearse, for many who had rooms there, losing Bedrock is a dark omen.
    August Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • There are family videos of her asleep on the couch while one of her dad’s bands was rehearsing in the living room.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In 2020, they were granted access to a vacant bank to create and rehearse.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Our band Lazarus used to rehearse at a chicken coop in Howell Township.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Hawaii home, returning to his Marin County haunts just before the trio regrouped in L.A. to rehearse for the tour.
    Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Baldwin was rehearsing for a scene with the pistol when the gun went off, according to NBC News.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Learn the lines, but don’t rehearse, not by yourselves or together.
    Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Jamie falls in love with West’s character, bad boy Landon Carter, while the two of them are rehearsing for a school play.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The pandemic gave them time to refine and rehearse the restaurant before crowds flocked to it.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • There wasn’t any rehearsal; there was no way to rehearse it, really.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, the performers rehearsed for stage shows, which now run four times a night, starting at 5:30 pm.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024

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