How to Use prototype in a Sentence

prototype

1 of 2 noun

• They tested the prototype of the car.
• He is the prototype of a conservative businessman.
• He is developing a prototype for his invention.
• The Sherlock Holmes stories are the prototypes of modern detective stories.
• The prototype was fired up for the first time late that year.
  — Harry Booth, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
• The books shaped around that prototype didn’t have a name just yet.
  — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 4 May 2026
• More than a dozen prototypes were made.
  — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 7 May 2026
• For teams, this means prototypes get on the table in days.
  — Daniel Koren, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Wolfe, who is four inches taller, is more of a prototype tight end.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• The pieces for the first prototype took more than seven hours to print.
  — Kenny Choi, CBS News, 12 June 2026
• The film is now seen as the prototype for sleek, stylish action-thrillers.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
• That’s not the prototype of a modern ace.
  — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
• Even with a prototype, her boss was unmoved.
  — thehustle.co, 20 Mar. 2026
• What could have been, or rather, could be, given at least one prototype is out in the wild.
  — Joel Feder, The Drive, 17 June 2026
• This is not a prototype phase anymore.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
• These robots are no longer lab prototypes.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• Starship is still in its prototype stage and has not yet launched to orbit.
  — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• The brand hints the prototypes may preview a future range of bikes.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 July 2025
• The one-of-a-kind prototype cleans carbon from the air while driving.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• The future prototype has a large set of wheels up front and two smaller pairs in the back.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2025
• These are specific prototype race cars made for the track.
  — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 8 May 2026
• But for now, enjoy the prototype's flip-and-fold action in our footage.
  — Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 2 Mar. 2025
• The first prototypes focused on arms.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
• Humble built its first prototype in roughly six months.
  — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
• The products are sometimes still in the prototype stage.
  — Paul Sanchez Ruiz, The Conversation, 6 Apr. 2026
• The first test of a prototype is expected to happen next year.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 2 May 2022
• The team tested a prototype cut from 6 mm rubber.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
• The runway was lined with ecru muslin, which fashion houses use to make prototypes.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Pick a use case, develop a prototype, test it and refine it.
  — Cory McNeley, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• The prototype’s first flight is scheduled to take place in Germany this year.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026

prototype

2 of 2 verb

• Studios that can prototype quickly and deliver narrow, sticky gameplay loops will thrive.
  — Andranik Aslanyan, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• One goal for the infrastructure was to reduce the time from concept to prototype by 30 percent.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
• Our designers and product managers are learning how to use AI to prototype rapidly and test new ideas faster.
  — Malte Kramer, Forbes.com, 14 Jan. 2026
• Super Meat Boy, for example, was first prototyped on Newgrounds.
  — ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
• Now, domains not only serve as a place to claim your brand identity, but also as a prototyping tool that can be a temporary storage container for a work in progress.
  — Sammy Ahmed, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• This is a crucial principle for prototyping any product in the early stages of your business, not just B2B tools.
  — Abdo Riani, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Where there was once just one, there are now 20 modern multi-axis CNC machines for prototyping.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• Not every advisor will write code, but many will use AI to prototype and refine digital client experiences.
  — Bill Capuzzi, Forbes.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• New footage suggests that China might be close to mass-producing advanced stealth fighter jets, not just prototyping them as previously believed.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
• His longer-term goal is to identify new technologies, prototype them, and move them into production by using yachts like Leviathan as test beds in real-world conditions.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 16 June 2026
• Rather than tethering them to screens, students prototyped with cardboard, paper, and recycled materials.
  — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• Low-code allows people to prototype a concept at a low cost, validate the concept with real users, then use actual data to plan out the full platform, which saved a lot of discovery work.
  — Nik Froehlich, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• What used to require a team of 10 engineers, $2M in funding, and 18 months can now be prototyped by a single person with the right skills in a weekend.
  — Yola Robert, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• The industrial and desktop 3D printers allow engineers and designers to prototype parts and pieces for fit and design.
  — New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2025
• The program is focused on rapidly prototyping and fielding modular sensor solutions that can enhance drones and unmanned ground vehicles.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 June 2026
• The company will now model, design, and prototype the targets to build the scientific and engineering case for its first demonstration reactor.
  — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
• Most internal software eventually breaks down because maintenance is much harder than prototyping.
  — Krish Ramineni, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• This not only boosts productivity but also fosters innovation as developers can explore and prototype faster.
  — David Henkin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Startups, and there were many at the launch event, are looking for a place to prototype and begin manufacturing ideas that are too weird for anywhere else—and hopefully bypassing the lab-to-fab valley of death that claims many hardware startups.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2025
• PyTorch, developed by Meta AI, is commonly used for prototyping deep-learning models in academia and industry.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
• Experimentation and prototyping with these tools feels effortless because most of the boilerplate needed to start a new project is now fully handled by the LLM.
  — Ashish Selvaraj, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• Encourage teams to prototype with MCP in low-risk scenarios first, such as internal pilots, to build experience and refine integration based on feedback.
  — Ashay Satav, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• With hybrid models, firms can prototype AI tools in the cloud, then leverage private deployment for production when security, latency or compliance demands increase.
  — Eric Harmon, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• ExpandFab allows users to prototype products that expand and morph into various shapes, such as objects changing from one shape to various shapes, and functional prototype with electronic components.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2020
• After a company uses the developer kit to prototype their robot, Nvidia will sell Thor T5000 modules that can be installed in production-ready robots.
  — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
• Saronic aims to transition autonomous shipping from prototyping to large-scale production by integrating this adaptable platform with a fast manufacturing strategy.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
• Replit helps people, individuals, teams, or enterprises, to build apps using natural language, rapidly prototyping software without heavy engineering overhead.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Amazon is also prototyping AI smart glasses that will guide its delivery drivers on the road, embedding a small screen in their field of vision [Yahoo Finance, 2025].
  — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
• In collaboration with Stellant Systems, researchers are prototyping advanced magnetrons that can be combined to reach the necessary high-power thresholds with maximum efficiency.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2026
• Princeton University—to prototype string crystallization technology to produce lithium concentrates from various types of saline water at a rate of 200 gallons daily.
  — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026