How to Use time trial in a Sentence

time trial

noun
  • He posted the second best lap in the time trials.
  • The results of the cycling time trial aren’t quite as clear.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In road cycling, there are road races, time trials, and relay events.
    — Molly Higgins, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2024
  • In spite of the attention to speed, this was not a head-on race or even a time trial.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The only teammate who beat me was the one team member who had missed the time trial.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Humphreys learned about an upcoming time trial.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
  • His strongest suit, however, was the time trial, or race against the clock.
    — Ian Austen, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Also, this test is based on performance in a solo time trial, not a race.
    — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 24 June 2020
  • Starting the time trial second to last, Pogacar was faster than the rest of the field by over a minute.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • This was meted out through a racing time trial two weeks into practice.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Chloe Dygert, who took bronze in the July 27 time trial, will be there, as well.
    — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Ryan Boyle is a tricyclist, competing in the time trial and road race events.
    — al, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Boston is perhaps one of the last pure races, one more akin to the Olympics or a world championship than a time trial.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Fans can satisfy their need for speed by testing their skills in pit-stop challenges and reaction-time trials.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Leah Thomas and Kristen Faulkner both have podium shots in the road time trial, though.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • Kipchoge set the record last year in Berlin, and ran a marathon in less than two hours in a time trial in Vienna last month.
    — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Barber offers a clue during his subsequent time trials.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2016
  • Pogacar sealed the win in a high-drama time trial on Saturday, the last real day of racing for the title.
    — John Leicester, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Roglič was all set to win the Tour in 2020, with a healthy lead going into the final time trial.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 June 2024
  • The three-time Olympian won a gold medal in team pursuit, and a bronze medal in the individual time trial cycling event.
    — Justin L. MacK, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Four years ago in Rio, Masters fell just short of the podium, finishing fourth in the road race and fifth in the time trial.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2021
  • Two years ago, Dygert became the youngest time trial winner — with the biggest margin — in the history of the road worlds.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The racetrack has been busy all week for Daytona Speedweeks, a series of races and time trials that precede the big race.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
  • Unsurprisingly, this squad are one of the favourites for the Tour's opening team time trial in Barcelona.
    — Andy McGrath, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Once a staple of Tours de France, we are treated to a now-rare sighting of a team time trial to kick things off in Barcelona.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Taylor Knibb resigned her position in the road race to focus on the time trial and triathlon events, and Faulkner took her place.
    — Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Cabral, of Hartford, did think about running the race hard, maybe as a time trial with some other elite runners in the state, but then decided against that.
    — Lori Riley, courant.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • In a lot of these cases, whatever exposition you’re given usually amounts to a time trial.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 14 May 2026
  • Busch led a sweep of the top three spots for Stewart-Haas Racing after 15 minutes of time trials.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Carmel’s Jacob Mitchell was to swim a time trial in the 400 freestyle at the end of Tuesday night’s session.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2021

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