How to Use dress rehearsal in a Sentence

dress rehearsal

noun

• The artist and the jurist This is a dress rehearsal of sorts.
  — Grace Ashford Cindy Schultz, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• So this is a great dress rehearsal for our guys, and for me.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2017
• The June 8 dress rehearsal is known as the Colonel’s Review.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024
• This is the third time the wet dress rehearsal has been delayed.
  — Zoe Sottile and Ross Levitt, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
• The morning’s dress rehearsal will be open and free to all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• Here are some other things to look for in the dress rehearsal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• This will be followed by a wet dress rehearsal and then the launch.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
• The show’s host has been absent much of the week and missed the dress rehearsal, Belushi complains.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• The latest test of the Space Launch System was a dress rehearsal on Dec. 20.
  — Mary Perez and Lauren Walck | The Sun Herald, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• That show will be a dress rehearsal for the performance at the Big E on Sept. 16 and 17.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 17 June 2019
• This is the dress rehearsal for the most important fight of his life.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2019
• With the tour just six weeks out, Prince began to look for a venue to hold a dress rehearsal.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 17 June 2021
• But yes, the dress rehearsal was when the prosthetics made their debut — the noses and the mouths.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
• The Cowboys don’t care so much about whether Prescott plays against the Texans in the dress rehearsal.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2021
• One final dress rehearsal for the Ball before the big night!
  — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 31 Dec. 2018
• The lighting is dark enough for the image to look mulchy, yet flat enough to look like dress rehearsal.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• The Cardinals intend to use the day as a dress rehearsal of sorts for game days.
  — Jose M. Romero, The Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• But pan back just a bit from the action on the field, and things feel more like a dress rehearsal than the real thing.
  — Ina Fried, Axios, 26 July 2024
• But that triumph was just a dress rehearsal for what came next.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• At the time, Okinawa had the look of a dress rehearsal for the invasion of Japan.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2021
• Pau Gasol will not have a dress rehearsal with the Portland Trail Blazers.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2019
• Legend is that final dress rehearsals, that’s when the ghosts come out.
  — Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Britt got off on the wrong foot with a red zone drop in the dress rehearsal game, and had another one against the Steelers.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• There was even a dress rehearsal last week against the 49ers in front of cardboard cutouts in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
• The process is a sort of dress rehearsal ahead of hurricane season.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Mar. 2021
• Two days out, actors will have their first dress rehearsal.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• In April, the rocket failed three wet dress rehearsal attempts.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
• And at least during the dress rehearsal, the stars seemed to remember most of their lines — or at least hid any flubs well.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
• At one point in the dress rehearsal in the movie, he’s seen as stumbling through his lines, not in command of the material.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
• And through it all, the specter of Lewis’ bloody face hangs over her, a grisly harbinger of doom amid the endless meet-and-greets and dress rehearsals.
  — Abby Monteil, Them, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024