trial run

The pandemic gave people who were reluctant about it a sort of trial run.

If Australia allows her to participate, she may benefit from a trial run for potentially bigger games ahead.

Operators at a Pfizer plant outside Kalamazoo hoped the trial run could provide quick validation of the company’s gamble on a newfangled mRNA technology.

The plans for the musical — which, before the coronavirus shut down American theater, was to have had a trial run in Chicago — represent a wild pivot for a Shakespearean company.

The Port wound up dismantling its project after a year-and-a-half trial run.

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.

The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.

When these last words of his were interpreted to her, she started, made as if she would run after him, but checked herself.