How to Use mock-up in a Sentence

mock-up

noun

• For a new build, Byrd uses the same process on a mock-up of the future walls.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
• For months, Shank had a mock-up of a toilet stall in his office as designs were tweaked for the $55 million project.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• The set, a sturdy mock-up of a settler’s house that took students two months to build, was demolished.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Both mock-ups of these new emoji motions look like the people are sleeping, which is strange.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• The mock-ups also show a clear bubble cockpit, which the display model lacked.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
• Down the hall, a mock-up is in place for astronauts to train on how to enter the Dream Chaser and pack and unpack cargo while it's docked at the station.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2023
• The clapboard animal is a mock-up of the Trojan Horse of mythological fame.
  — Nick Hilden, CNN, 10 May 2023
• Favreau walked her around various mock-ups of characters, most of them hidden by masks.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
• The monuments—galleys, lavatories, and stowage compartments—are finished in workshops, then moved to a mock-up of the plane.
  — Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
• Monuments—galleys, lavatories, and stowage compartments—are finished in workshops, then moved to a mock-up of the plane.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 9 July 2023
• But authority officials caution the mock-up is only a rough layout of what the train could feature and nothing is set in stone.
  — Randy Diamond, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
• Often, the artist will make several mock-ups, going back and forth with the researchers to determine which is best and any details that might need adjustment, Cook says.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2023
• Where Yarish sees a difference is Wynona’s emphasis on capturing the feel of those films, rather than making derivative mock-ups of on-screen kit.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 17 May 2023
• YouTube YouTube-provided mock-up of a content label added to the video player, warning of altered or synthetic content.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
• She was also seen standing opposite Malone, 28, in front of a mock-up background of a coastline as more windswept papers circled the pair, with more paper covering the floor.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
• To replace the rocket, the legislature passed a law earlier this year for a mock-up to be installed at the under-renovation welcome center.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023
• Investigators with the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives built a full-scale mock-up of the middle deck of the 75-foot vessel in their quest to determine the fire’s point of origin and cause.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• You are greeted by a big mock-up rocket at the entrance of the city; there are billboards by space agencies, Lockheed Martin and Airbus sprinkled around town, and graffiti of monkeys in spacesuits adorns the sides of buildings.
  — Karlijn Korpershoek, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• Israel’s troops train for urban combat, including in tunnels, at a mock-up Palestinian city on a military base located in the Negev Desert.
  — Brian Glyn Williams, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2023
• At the recent House Democratic retreat, mock-ups of such signs circulated among attendees.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• The movie’s wartime prologue and its occasional flashbacks and nightmare scenes were filmed in a mock-up of a Middle Eastern village erected for training purposes at Camp Pendleton.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi told me last week about using AI image creation for mock-up images of a remodeled room in his home.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Mexican governors have gone to loopy extremes, like putting up billboards, creating special car lanes or creating mock-ups of Tesla ads for their states.
  — Mark Stevenson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
• Another set of large-scale military exercises, similar to the blockade mock-up in the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit in 2022, is possible.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2024
• In one recent interview, Catherine was given a take-home assignment: Build a desktop app from scratch, connect it to a mock-up of a backend system, and provide extensive documentation of each step.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2024
• Boeing has elected not to bring any commercial aircraft to this year’s Singapore Airshow, featuring a 777X cabin experience mock-up instead.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Several mock-ups of a user interface for a project known as Amezit appear to depict examples of possible hacking targets, including the Foreign Ministry in Switzerland and a nuclear power plant in that nation.
  — Hakan Tanriverdi, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024