How to Use dry run in a Sentence

dry run

noun

• We did a dry run of the experiment.
• After several dry runs, she was ready to give the speech.
• This is a coup in 1954 that in many ways serves as the dry run for the Bay of Pigs.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2021
• If the dry run goes well, that’s very good news for the future of fusion.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2021
• Give it a dry run, and make sure there are no tech hiccups.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
• The rocket was supposed to have made its dry run by 2017.
  — Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2022
• The trip would include a dry run of the Thanksgiving meal for 20 guests.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Whittingham said the team will go through a dry run of the game-day process in the coming days.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2020
• That would make the next two years a dry run for 2021, when Democrats hope to control the White House and Congress.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
• In 2019, researchers with the ISA made use of these traits to perform a dry run for a mission to Mars.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 7 Dec. 2021
• The starters won’t take the field for a dry run against Seattle in the team’s final preseason game.
  — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
• With the welder off, do a dry run to make sure your positioning is good.
  — Phillip Pantuso, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2015
• Ensure that everyone has done a dry run and knows how to get on, how to mute and how to chat.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• Still, some analysts feared the attack was a dry run for Nov. 3.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2020
• The last presidential election was a dry run for the next.
  — J. Michael Luttig, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
• The first dead drop, in June 2015, was a dry run in which Peng picked up an empty package left at the hotel’s front desk.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 1 Oct. 2019
• The capitulation to Moore was a dry run for the coming assault on the rule of law.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Dec. 2017
• Jen would later learn that the dinner was a dry run for a proposal.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
• The third preseason game is supposed to be the big tune-up, the dry run for the regular season.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The drop was rehearsed without a hitch in a dry run Tuesday morning, the mayor said.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 30 Dec. 2021
• Sais, who had a border crossing card, did a dry run with the help of another man from the casino.
  — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
• The visit was seen as a dry run for his summit with President Trump.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• The Biden team made scant secret that this speech in Tempe was a dry run for a likely campaign against Donald Trump.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• His latest remarks suggest that was a dry run for a bigger fight on cars.
  — Jacob M. Schlesinger, WSJ, 1 July 2018
• Clarke gave Georgia a grade of F, if the primary was a dry run for November.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
• This dry run didn't take place in New York, however, but rather at a special event in New Orleans.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 28 Mar. 2017
• The pandemic has been a dry run for how governments can curb travel in the future.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• Early in the week, the hotel staff staged a dry run to prepare for guests arriving later in the week, Dechambre said.
  — Agya K. Aning, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 June 2020
• The training included a dry run of shooting down Israeli aircraft and taking over a kibbutz and a military training base, killing all the cadets.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• In addition to its flashy performance, the comet fragment’s breakup served as a dry run for experts hoping to defend the planet from large killer asteroids.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 20 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024