How to Use demo in a Sentence
- She cut a demo last week.
- The salesman gave us a demo of the vacuum cleaner, and it seemed to work very well.
- I saw a demo on how to use the computer program.
- She will be showing a demo of the company's new alarm system.
- They sent the demo to several record companies.
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Learn the tools by running them against real work, not a sandbox demo.
—Michelle O'Connor, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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Again, don’t spend $120M-plus on a production that can’t pull in more than three demos.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 29 June 2026
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Shipping a demo is not the same as running a production system six months later.
—Oleg Lola, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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Near the end of the demo, one of us piloted a ship while the other used a turret to shoot enemies and space debris.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 7 July 2026
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In the demo, many puzzles were simple challenges that required my teammate and me to work together to solve them.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 7 July 2026
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That gap between the impressive demo and real business change is the cost that most finance teams won’t be able to measure.
—Neda Nia, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
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Draft a workshop outline, shape a visual demo, or turn a concept into something people can feel.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2026
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Jihyo heard Shenseea on the demo for the song and was excited to contribute her voice alongside hers.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
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Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire still remembers the demo that changed his mind on Sable.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 16 July 2026
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Maps, Modes, and More My demo also showcased various types of raids.
—Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
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Along with the demos, a list of credits for the demo must be included (composer, lyricist, arranger, guide, and source if sampling was used).
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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With Jagger’s vocals often buried deep in the muddy and murky mix, the album initially sounds like a druggy demo.
—Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
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The gap between demo and production is where most voice AI deployments struggle and where patient trust is won or lost.
—Saran Siva, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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Companies that chase headcount reduction build systems that look impressive in a demo and fall apart in production.
—Oleg Lola, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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The studio noticed recently how that demo has been responding to the film’s materials and energy.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 10 July 2026
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The under-25 guy demo is huge for Brand New Day, well ahead of all those movies including No Way Home.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 July 2026
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My demo partner and I explored the colony at our own pace, interacting with the cooperative puzzles and mini-games.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 7 July 2026
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What ships fast in a demo rarely survives contact with real users, edge cases and the kind of low-effort probing that any moderately curious person will apply to a new app.
—Dan Haiem, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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Knowing that a visitor asked three questions about security, spent time on your enterprise plan and then left without booking a demo tells you everything about what to do next.
—Suyash Karn, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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In a demo room, one of Schlachte’s employees demonstrates the NUC Pro 16 in action.
—John Burek, PC Magazine, 5 July 2026
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High-intent customers will still visit websites, compare products, download reports, request demos, apply to programs and make purchases.
—Esade Business & Law School, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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In the key demo, The Five led in June with 318,000 viewers, followed by Gutfeld!
—Mark Joyella, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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This characterization was best displayed during the demo's early moments.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026
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In the 25-54 demo, The Five led with 322,000, followed by Gutfeld!
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 July 2026
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That next step could be booking a demo, applying for a job, completing a training, sharing the message internally or feeling more confident in the company.
—Tavares Beverly, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
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The storm led to the designer demoing the home down to the studs to get rid of any mold.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
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The decision to demo the changes comes as pushback has reached a fever pitch.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
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But the only way to improve your tech stack is to demo the various products out there.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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Don’t demo the button - demo the result.
—Abdo Riani, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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That's followed by a render of the bot demoing a car to a human on an exhibition floor.
—New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
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Samsung still used a laptop display image to demo the feature rather than showing it on a phone.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Apr. 2021
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There will be demos by members of MWBGB.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
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In Golden, Revel will have a showroom so customers can come and demo the bikes.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
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The new features will be demoed live at the Canva Create event, which can be watched online.
—Johan Moreno, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
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Their properties will be acquired by the state DOT and demoed over the next year or so.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
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Benét demoed the song and sent it to Bailey Rae in London, but was let down gently.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
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Meanwhile, a co-op game turned the four of us demoing it into ninjas defending a castle by slashing our swords on beat.
—Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 11 June 2026
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This is key to having the product pop up in consumers’ social media feeds, leading users to demo it and click through to purchase.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
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Among the prototypes that Lenovo demoed this week is a small, circular display adorned with cat ears and a tail.
—Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025
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His younger self is shown in flashbacks, a nerdy writer assigned to demo a strange new simulation that's disguised as a video game.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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But only Roborock actually demoed its robot picking anything up — and that was just a sock.
—Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
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To demo the active air suspension, Porsche created an app that uses a phone's tilt sensors.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
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Google was pretty pumped and brought out Mark Ronson and Selena Gomez to demo it.
—Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 16 Mar. 2021
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Taiga has rented a berth to demo its jet ski at Westpoint Harbor in the southern part of the Bay Area.
—WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
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There are tons on YouTube, where people demo enterprise resource-planning systems and the like.
—Paul Ford, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
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Lenovo demoed a second-gen Fold, which looked poised to fix some of its predecessor’s problems, last fall, but that has yet to be released.
—Monica Chin, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023
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In fact, United demoed a taste of what that could look earlier this week, with a new partnership with Spotify.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
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Rusnak wears a Meta Quest headset (left) while demoing the system, which shows athletes immersive views of the rink (right).
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
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These parties were gatherings where people who enjoyed the product would demo and sell the Tupperware brand to their friends and acquaintances.
—Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
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The band demoed songs in 2020 with engineer Brok Mende, but were forced to put their plans on hold during the pandemic.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 9 Jan. 2024
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Some lamented the lack of live features demoed at the launch and offered rolling commentary on Baidu’s falling stock price as the demonstration continued.
—Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
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Last year Crossbar inked a deal with aerospace chipmaker Microsemi and demoed a chip that did face recognition and read license plates.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2019
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Recently, Mays and his daughter traveled to 21 Gelson’s grocery stores to demo their sauce and share their story.
—Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2022
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To demo the monitor, TCL played a video showing two Roman soldiers battling each other.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 May 2025
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Greenfield, who's been in business for about three-and-a half years, said a client hired him to demo and clear out a building on Northwestern Parkway, which was involved in a fire late last year.
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Sep. 2024
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