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.
  • If the dry run goes well, that’s very good news for the future of fusion.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2021
  • With the welder off, do a dry run to make sure your positioning is good.
    — Phillip Pantuso, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2015
  • 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
  • Jen would later learn that the dinner was a dry run for a proposal.
    — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • His latest remarks suggest that was a dry run for a bigger fight on cars.
    — Jacob M. Schlesinger, WSJ, 1 July 2018
  • This judicial blitz was a dry run of the legal resistance’s game plan.
    — Josh Blackman, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
  • 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 trip would include a dry run of the Thanksgiving meal for 20 guests.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The pandemic has been a dry run for how governments can curb travel in the future.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • These often amount to a rigorous rehearsal or dry run in advance of a hard deadline.
    — Dave Shiflett, WSJ, 29 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yet Saboteur never plays like a dry run for North by Northwest.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Recently, two of their children dressed up in full costumes as a dry run for the upcoming fright night.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The drop was rehearsed without a hitch in a dry run Tuesday morning, the mayor said.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The capitulation to Moore was a dry run for the coming assault on the rule of law.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Conducting a dry run of your crisis response plan is an excellent way to find the gaps in your plan of action.
    — Yec, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • So, consider today a dry run of what will ultimately occur when the war winds down.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Despite this setback, the Boss's dry runs appear to have continued.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2018
  • In short, the conflict contained a dry run for a potential chemical attack.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Amalia also lets slip that Mary is doing a dry run with the amp later that evening because why not just tell her everything.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Clarke gave Georgia a grade of F, if the primary was a dry run for November.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
  • Getting to and from the game proved easier than during the dry runs, but there were plenty of complaints about concessions and long lines.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the August start of the reconciliation process, the Senate did a dry run of a vote-a-rama.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021

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