How to Use dress rehearsal in a Sentence

dress rehearsal

noun
  • Guess who steps in and knocks ’em dead at the dress rehearsal?
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Here are some other things to look for in the dress rehearsal.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • But that triumph was just a dress rehearsal for what came next.
    — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
  • This is the third time the wet dress rehearsal has been delayed.
    — Zoe Sottile and Ross Levitt, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
  • This will be followed by a wet dress rehearsal and then the launch.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The artist and the jurist This is a dress rehearsal of sorts.
    — Grace Ashford Cindy Schultz, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • This is the dress rehearsal for the most important fight of his life.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Louisville's win vs Baylor was a good dress rehearsal.
    — Stephanie Stremplewski, Louisville Courier Journal, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Chief among them is a fueling test known as a wet dress rehearsal.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Treat Colorado as the dress rehearsal, not the sideshow.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 10 June 2026
  • But, in the middle of dress rehearsal, one of the bumpers had fallen off.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Legend is that final dress rehearsals, that’s when the ghosts come out.
    — Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Remember those 'dress rehearsals' in the third game?
    — Geoffrey Knox, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Think of the test cake as the dress rehearsal—one last chance to make any tweaks before showtime.
    — Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The process is a sort of dress rehearsal ahead of hurricane season.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Mar. 2021
  • In April, the rocket failed three wet dress rehearsal attempts.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
  • But before Lucy gets there, the spacecraft will have time for a few dress rehearsals.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But yes, the dress rehearsal was when the prosthetics made their debut — the noses and the mouths.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The show’s host has been absent much of the week and missed the dress rehearsal, Belushi complains.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • 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
  • This test served as a dress rehearsal for the lunar rocket’s engine power.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • There's no guarantee that everything will go well with that test, which is called a wet dress rehearsal.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • After a few minutes of standing around, the dress rehearsal begins.
    — Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Think of it as a dress rehearsal that catches bad actors before the curtain rises.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The pre-tape inside the house, and then there’s the pre-tape on the field of him falling through the roof during the dress rehearsal.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This is really a dress rehearsal for Taiwan.
    — NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025

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