Examples of trial run in a Sentence
They will put the software through many trial runs before putting it on the market.
We will have to give the machine a trial run.
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Great Big Beautiful Life follows two rival writers, Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson who are each given a one-month trial run to write the biography of a reclusive former socialite, Margaret Ives, per a synopsis.
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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
However, the president shared intentions to resume testing following Russia’s successful trial run of its new nuclear-capable cruise missile, known as the Burevestnik, which flew 8,700 miles.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
Even as the judge stayed within the sentencing guidelines, with today as a trial run, pardon the pun, expect those filings in the very near future, I’m told.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
But unlike most beginnings, this one got a trial run, Joining the Lakers in February gave Dončić a sense of what life in Los Angeles would be like.
—Dan Woike, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
However, the president shared intentions to resume testing following Russia’s successful trial run of its new nuclear-capable cruise missile, known as the Burevestnik, which flew 8,700 miles.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
Even as the judge stayed within the sentencing guidelines, with today as a trial run, pardon the pun, expect those filings in the very near future, I’m told.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
But unlike most beginnings, this one got a trial run, Joining the Lakers in February gave Dončić a sense of what life in Los Angeles would be like.
—Dan Woike, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Trial run.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trial%20run. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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