How to Use dress rehearsal in a Sentence
dress rehearsal
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The artist and the jurist This is a dress rehearsal of sorts.
— Grace Ashford Cindy Schultz, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Most likely, the first teamers will have a dress rehearsal on the road in next week’s Aug. 17 at the Houston Texans.
— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024 -
To be fair to Gardner, only some of the prosthetics made their way into the dress rehearsal of the sketch.
— Lauren Huff, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024 -
This all looks like a dress rehearsal for a planned Sea Beyond feature film.
— Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023 -
The team fell behind and bumped the second and final touch-and-go dress rehearsal for the spacecraft to August.
— Marcia Dunn, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020 -
Tickets for the nine 2025 shows, including dress rehearsals, are expected to go on sale in the next few months.
— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2024
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