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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The demo is a mere taste of what Light Field Labs hopes to achieve.
— PCMAG, 8 Feb. 2023 -
Play time: The demo is short and takes about two hours to complete.
— Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024 -
Then, even the creaking sound of the piano pedal made it in the demo.
— Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023 -
The company walked me through what the new Bing could do in a demo last week.
— Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023 -
In a demo, Google showed a picture of a girl running on a beach.
— WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023 -
Paresh Dave: So the demo started with a tour of their studio.
— WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023 -
But there was a catch: Usher heard the demo and wanted to record it.
— Mike Wass, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023 -
There were seven songs on the demo but only six on the copy.
— Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Feb. 2023 -
Ronson sent a demo of the song to Gerwig, who then played it for Gosling.
— Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023 -
The demo of the same song is a big jazz jam like Sting’s later solo music.
— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2024 -
Google’s blog also describes prompts not shown in the demo.
— IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2023 -
To see a demo of these new features, contact us at sales@caseiq.com.
— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2024 -
And this demo is just the public tip of a private iceberg.
— Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023 -
In the promo, Joanna arrives at the lake house on demo day, but Chip is nowhere in sight.
— Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024 -
In another demo, a child is tired of sitting in the stroller and wants to be carried.
— Jennifer Korn, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023 -
Playing a demo of the game, Clive felt potent to control.
— Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023 -
The band had a 3 p.m. appointment with the label, and when the group left the studio, Rimes finished the demo and sent it in the middle of the meeting.
— Tom Roland, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2024 -
Once my demo opened, though, things started to get a little weird.
— Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 May 2024 -
In a hands-off demo, the developers showed off the early parts of the campaign, which takes place in a home that’s about to be sold.
— Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024 -
The songwriting didn’t seem quite complete in the demo John did that many people have heard.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023 -
However, many of these features were locked off in the demo.
— Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 10 June 2024 -
The demo's levels ramp up rather quickly, though this may not reflect the final game.
— Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2023 -
He demo-ed the old structure, dug a new foundation and started adding floors from there.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023 -
In 2007 or whatever, the idea of going back to an old demo would’ve been the opposite of what we were supposed to do.
— Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023 -
The demo is reminiscent of any other number of AI self-owns that have happened in recent years.
— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 July 2024
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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 -
But the only way to improve your tech stack is to demo the various products out there.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Short cutscenes from the campaign with Chief and a new AI that don’t demo any significant gameplay.
— Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021 -
In the meantime, Mitchell is going to demo the technology for the forestry service, too.
— Erik Schechter, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2014 -
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 -
The Stranger Things scenes show up without warning, and the whole thing is brilliantly scripted to demo what’s possible with Workspace.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 20 June 2021 -
The number of blockchain startups demoing at YCombinator has fallen sharply this year.
— David Z. Morris, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2019 -
The best way to demo new features intended for foldable phones is by using its own hardware.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Feb. 2021 -
That hints that Google is about to demo various apps optimized for foldable screens.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 15 Oct. 2021 -
Samsung still used a laptop display image to demo the feature rather than showing it on a phone.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Apr. 2021 -
The online show includes how-to demo videos and offers the opportunity to live chat with exhibitors.
— cleveland, 4 Mar. 2021 -
The company demoed the new Google News during the I/O keynote, showing off many features in mobile-app form.
— Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 8 May 2018 -
There are tons on YouTube, where people demo enterprise resource-planning systems and the like.
— Paul Ford, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020 -
More experienced riders can check out and demo top bikes from Trek, also for rent.
— Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 12 June 2018 -
Apple will introduce iOS 15 and demo the new features on June 7th.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Apr. 2021 -
And as the first company to demo this tech, Google has a responsibility to face these issues head-on.
— James Vincent, The Verge, 9 May 2018 -
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 -
Microsoft was set to demo a few upcoming titles at this year's GDC.
— Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2020 -
During each, participants got to demo both brands of shoes and Osprey running vests.
— Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 13 July 2017 -
In an Instagram video that the singer-slash-actor shared on Monday, Willis demos a squat variety known as the box squat that involves resting your butt on a bench in between each rep.
— Jenny McCoy, SELF, 24 Jan. 2019 -
Being able to demo the product in real life in the convenience of a Nordstrom store could be a big boost for Tonal and expand its reach to potential new customers.
— Blake Morgan, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021 -
One of those stories claimed that Apple might want to hold an in-person AR glasses event later this year to demo the technology.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 8 June 2021 -
With his safety glasses and newsboy cap on, Pitt helps demo a ceiling and break through a wall to help give his longtime makeup artist Jean Ann Black a multi-use guest house/workspace.
— Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020 -
Pastry chef and cookbook author Gale Gand will join her to demo recipes for her contributions to the book, apple meringue (below) and chocolate eclair recipes.
— Amy Bizzarri, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2019 -
Currently, a select group of users have been demoing Waymo's self-driving ride hailing service, but the company plans to open it to the public in the Arizona city laster this year.
— Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 31 May 2018 -
Memoji was just one of the new immersive features demoed Monday.
— Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 5 June 2018 -
Unfortunately for this article, that means a lot of features that don't demo well in under five minutes at a launch event.
— Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2018 -
A decade after Belcher demoed her battery at the White House, her viral assembly process has rapidly advanced.
— Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020 -
Those ideas are harder to demo though, and will probably take an entire game to fully appreciate.
— Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 15 June 2019 -
The plan was to demo a home, but simmering tensions involving the on-camera talent escalated into a moment of shock for crew as a hammer went flying across the room, leaving a hole in the wall.
— Toni-Ann Lagana, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2022
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