trial run

How To Use trial run In A Sentence

• This year is something of a trial run for the new service.
• I'm giving it a trial run starting today.
• This means my roast vegetable lasagna and minted peas with pancetta will have to wait for next week… that is unless I have a trial run, yum!
• Many newspapers, periodicals and fiction of the day detailed the accidents and almost-accidents which befell early motorists, such as when Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, upon taking her new motorcar for a trial run, accidentally drove backwards and knocked over a passing man, and then proceeded to drive over him twice more before he got away and she got out of the car. To Drive a Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade
• After a wildly successful ten episode trial run, the cable channel TBS ordered 100 episodes up front, immediately establishing it as a show that would reach enough episodes to fruitfully syndicate it. Michael Giltz: DVDs: Keep Your "Eyes On The Prize" and "Superman" (Not That One) And More
• This year is a trial run for the new service, before it is officially introduced in 2001.
• She's taking the exam a year early, just as a trial run.
• After two trial runs we did it for real.
• Over 40 days after the trial runs began from Central Secretariat to Lajpat Nagar, Metro today extended it till Nehru Place station following energisation of the Over-Head Electrification Zee News : India National
• We're holding a tournament in the new ice-hockey stadium, as a trial run for next year's Winter Olympics.