How to Use mock-up in a Sentence

mock-up

noun
  • But the mock-ups got attention.
    — New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2026
  • For a new build, Byrd uses the same process on a mock-up of the future walls.
    — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
  • Dental consult or mock-up session (if planned).
    — Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, the mock-up shows a leather toe cap and a perforated heel.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 June 2025
  • Other tests set fire to mock-ups of mass timber buildings and record the results.
    — Kurt Kleiner, JSTOR Daily, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Moreno said the union would create a model, a mock-up, to show to the homeowners.
    — Eric Adler march 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2026
  • More about the controversial plans and mock-ups of the coins is in the full story, here.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Favreau walked her around various mock-ups of characters, most of them hidden by masks.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Cracks emerged across vertical columns in every mock-up test over a six-month period, the suit said.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 4 May 2025
  • Julien shows an enlarged mock-up of the small robots that make up programmable matter, catoms, and speaks about how they are designed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The format for the finals was a mock-up of World of Warcraft, an online role-playing game.
    — Mikayla Whitmore, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Alexander’s signature appears below the mock-up, per the Post.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • In the lobby of the main building, there's a mock-up of the company's first lunar lander, Mark 1.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The design team then creates a digital mock-up of the new smile, superimposing it over the patient’s face on a screen.
    — Matt Emma, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • On the other, mock-ups show the potential for more of a throwback look, one reminiscent of old-school flannel jerseys.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The presentation also revealed 3D mock-ups for scenes in the fashion workshop on the eve of big show.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • There are mock-up models of his current shows in Italy and Qatar (which opens today), with miniature cutouts of the work in cardboard.
    — Kirsty Lang For The Times, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2021
  • This week, hospital and project leaders showcased two mock-up rooms — one operating room and one patient room — to a major donor.
    — Emily Brindley, Dallas Morning News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In-hand images aren’t yet available, but a speculative mock-up gives an idea of what fans can expect from the upcoming release.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Tesla has shown off mock-ups of an Uber-like app that might allow a rider to hail an autonomous Tesla cab.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2024
  • This photo provided by Air New Zealand shows sleeping pods in a mock-up of a plane cabin.
    — CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The clapboard animal is a mock-up of the Trojan Horse of mythological fame.
    — Nick Hilden, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • 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
  • The classrooms will feature full-size cabin and galley mock-ups of Flexjet’s multiple aircraft types.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 12 June 2025

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