How to Use demo in a Sentence

demo

1 of 2 noun
  • Pick through that demo pile before it gets hauled away!
    — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 2021-01-18
  • Play time: The demo is short and takes about two hours to complete.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 2024-02-09
  • Google’s blog also describes prompts not shown in the demo.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2023-12-18
  • The fourth and fifth flights are still considered to be part of the tech demo phase.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2021-04-30
  • Charge per demo—you’ll make your $5,000 back in no time.
    — Wired, 2022-07-21
  • As shown in a demo video, your list of Projects will show up in the sidebar.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 2024-12-13
  • To see a demo of these new features, contact us at [email protected].
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2024-06-12
  • Check out what everyone else was playing, and maybe try out some of the demos that are still up.
    — Bluesky Social, 2025-03-05
  • At the tail end of his trip, a teenage singer, Price, pitched him on a demo session.
    — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2022-04-17
  • And this demo is just the public tip of a private iceberg.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2023-02-13
  • In a demo, Google showed a picture of a girl running on a beach.
    — WIRED, 2023-10-04
  • Then Millard lost his voice while recording a demo of the song.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2022-03-19
  • Then, even the creaking sound of the piano pedal made it in the demo.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 2023-12-14
  • But there was a catch: Usher heard the demo and wanted to record it.
    — Mike Wass, Variety, 2023-12-02
  • The demo is a mere taste of what Light Field Labs hopes to achieve.
    — PCMAG, 2023-02-08
  • The company walked me through what the new Bing could do in a demo last week.
    — Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 2023-03-02
  • Not for yelling at us, but for not doing his part to make the demo more successful.
    — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 2024-11-21
  • Jack in the Box execs zipped up to Pasadena for a demo.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 2022-09-20
  • The demo of the same song is a big jazz jam like Sting’s later solo music.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2024-07-25
  • Ronson sent a demo of the song to Gerwig, who then played it for Gosling.
    — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-09-28
  • With the demo-beings contained in the pit, Murray rains fire from above.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2022-07-02
  • Apparently, the members of the board were shown a demo of the new headset just a few days ago.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 2022-05-22
  • In a recent demo video, KR1 moved across a warehouse floor on its own.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2025-07-21
  • That demo was similar to the ride the Free Press reporter took.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 2020-10-25
  • In Abrams’s home office, Ton-That did a demo of Clearview.
    — New York Times, 2021-03-18
  • In the promo, Joanna arrives at the lake house on demo day, but Chip is nowhere in sight.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 2024-06-10
  • That is the demo that drove Mermaid and is expected to do the same for Snow White.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2025-03-21
  • The two worked out a demo of their own theme, a rap telling the premise of the show, in Jeff's hotel room and then Smith took it to Jones.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2024-12-04
  • Demo Day is important, but long-term relationships with investors and customers matter more.
    — Hinza Asif, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Compared to its year-ago finale, DWTS was up 16% in viewers and up 70% in the demo.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 2024-11-27

demo

2 of 2 verb
  • The storm led to the designer demoing the home down to the studs to get rid of any mold.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The decision to demo the changes comes as pushback has reached a fever pitch.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
  • But the only way to improve your tech stack is to demo the various products out there.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Don’t demo the button - demo the result.
    — Abdo Riani, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That's followed by a render of the bot demoing a car to a human on an exhibition floor.
    — New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Samsung still used a laptop display image to demo the feature rather than showing it on a phone.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Apr. 2021
  • There will be demos by members of MWBGB.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In Golden, Revel will have a showroom so customers can come and demo the bikes.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The new features will be demoed live at the Canva Create event, which can be watched online.
    — Johan Moreno, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Their properties will be acquired by the state DOT and demoed over the next year or so.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
  • Benét demoed the song and sent it to Bailey Rae in London, but was let down gently.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, a co-op game turned the four of us demoing it into ninjas defending a castle by slashing our swords on beat.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • This is key to having the product pop up in consumers’ social media feeds, leading users to demo it and click through to purchase.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Among the prototypes that Lenovo demoed this week is a small, circular display adorned with cat ears and a tail.
    — Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025
  • His younger self is shown in flashbacks, a nerdy writer assigned to demo a strange new simulation that's disguised as a video game.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • But only Roborock actually demoed its robot picking anything up — and that was just a sock.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
  • To demo the active air suspension, Porsche created an app that uses a phone's tilt sensors.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Google was pretty pumped and brought out Mark Ronson and Selena Gomez to demo it.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Taiga has rented a berth to demo its jet ski at Westpoint Harbor in the southern part of the Bay Area.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • There are tons on YouTube, where people demo enterprise resource-planning systems and the like.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Lenovo demoed a second-gen Fold, which looked poised to fix some of its predecessor’s problems, last fall, but that has yet to be released.
    — Monica Chin, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023
  • In fact, United demoed a taste of what that could look earlier this week, with a new partnership with Spotify.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Rusnak wears a Meta Quest headset (left) while demoing the system, which shows athletes immersive views of the rink (right).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • These parties were gatherings where people who enjoyed the product would demo and sell the Tupperware brand to their friends and acquaintances.
    — Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The band demoed songs in 2020 with engineer Brok Mende, but were forced to put their plans on hold during the pandemic.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Some lamented the lack of live features demoed at the launch and offered rolling commentary on Baidu’s falling stock price as the demonstration continued.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Last year Crossbar inked a deal with aerospace chipmaker Microsemi and demoed a chip that did face recognition and read license plates.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2019
  • Recently, Mays and his daughter traveled to 21 Gelson’s grocery stores to demo their sauce and share their story.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • To demo the monitor, TCL played a video showing two Roman soldiers battling each other.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 May 2025
  • Greenfield, who's been in business for about three-and-a half years, said a client hired him to demo and clear out a building on Northwestern Parkway, which was involved in a fire late last year.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Sep. 2024

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