How to Use prototype in a Sentence

prototype

noun
  • They tested the prototype of the car.
  • He is the prototype of a conservative businessman.
  • He is developing a prototype for his invention.
  • The Sherlock Holmes stories are the prototypes of modern detective stories.
  • The team displayed the prototype at a high school fair, and a young amputee named Ernest Priester, 13, asked to try it on.
    Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Oh no, Marco left product prototypes in the Uber with the hot guy and gets fired!
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 3 July 2023
  • The goal would be to produce two prototypes by 2028 for testing and trial runs.
    Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Well, the alpha version is the first version, the first prototype version.
    WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Advertisement And all of the prototypes were made by sixth-graders.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • At least one prototype was alleged to have already flown, way back in 2020.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • Ten months after the new Learjet Corp. set up in Kansas, the first Learjet 23 prototype was ready to fly.
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
  • Sony has formed a joint venture with Honda to build an electric prototype called Afeela, due to ship in 2026.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2024
  • What were your key learnings from building the prototype?
    Aparna Dhinakaran, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The new store could be a prototype for Publix’s new store concept called GreenWise stores.
    Kathy Jumper, al, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The current version of the evergreen rock ‘n roller is like a waxwork of the 1976 punk prototype Idol—in the best possible way.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Dec. 2023
  • In a lab space one room over, prototype buoys were pummeled by water churning in wave tanks.
    Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • So far, Beta has built a prototype of each, both of which are flown nearly every day, Clark says.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The two prototypes had entered orbit over the Atlantic Ocean at 2:24 p.m. Eastern on Oct. 6.
    Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Two more prototype ‘all-up rounds’ remained–could those be tweaked and possibly save the program?
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The bipedal humanoid robot has progressed rapidly since the first shaky prototype was revealed at the marque’s AI day in 2022.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
  • To answer that question, a prototype must be built to validate the model.
    Justin Davis, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The production version will have Wi-Fi, but the router wasn't operational in the prototype.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The announcement comes less than a year after a prototype of the vehicle set the hill-climb record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 June 2023
  • Mass timber affordable home prototypes are shown at the Port of Portland on Jan. 27.
    Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • In June, Delta unveiled a prototype that could someday allow wheelchair users to remain in their own chairs on flights.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Polestar just unveiled a new prototype with a winning design.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Friday night at Archbishop Spalding, the No. 5 Cougars might have found the ideal prototype.
    Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The auction house expects this one-off prototype to sell for between $1.5 million and $2 million.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 July 2023
  • Four students developed a prototype as part of a yearlong class project.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
  • At the moment, however, Adcock’s firm doesn’t have a prototype that’s ready for market.
    Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023

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