How to Use dress rehearsal in a Sentence

dress rehearsal

noun
  • The artist and the jurist This is a dress rehearsal of sorts.
    Grace Ashford Cindy Schultz, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The June 8 dress rehearsal is known as the Colonel’s Review.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024
  • This is the third time the wet dress rehearsal has been delayed.
    Zoe Sottile and Ross Levitt, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The morning’s dress rehearsal will be open and free to all.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Here are some other things to look for in the dress rehearsal.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • This will be followed by a wet dress rehearsal and then the launch.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The show’s host has been absent much of the week and missed the dress rehearsal, Belushi complains.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • The latest test of the Space Launch System was a dress rehearsal on Dec. 20.
    Mary Perez and Lauren Walck | The Sun Herald, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • That show will be a dress rehearsal for the performance at the Big E on Sept. 16 and 17.
    Denise Coffey, courant.com, 17 June 2019
  • This is the dress rehearsal for the most important fight of his life.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2019
  • With the tour just six weeks out, Prince began to look for a venue to hold a dress rehearsal.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 17 June 2021
  • But yes, the dress rehearsal was when the prosthetics made their debut — the noses and the mouths.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The Cowboys don’t care so much about whether Prescott plays against the Texans in the dress rehearsal.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2021
  • One final dress rehearsal for the Ball before the big night!
    Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 31 Dec. 2018
  • The lighting is dark enough for the image to look mulchy, yet flat enough to look like dress rehearsal.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The Cardinals intend to use the day as a dress rehearsal of sorts for game days.
    Jose M. Romero, The Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • But pan back just a bit from the action on the field, and things feel more like a dress rehearsal than the real thing.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 26 July 2024
  • But that triumph was just a dress rehearsal for what came next.
    New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
  • At the time, Okinawa had the look of a dress rehearsal for the invasion of Japan.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Pau Gasol will not have a dress rehearsal with the Portland Trail Blazers.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Legend is that final dress rehearsals, that’s when the ghosts come out.
    Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • There was even a dress rehearsal last week against the 49ers in front of cardboard cutouts in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The process is a sort of dress rehearsal ahead of hurricane season.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Two days out, actors will have their first dress rehearsal.
    Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • In April, the rocket failed three wet dress rehearsal attempts.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
  • And at least during the dress rehearsal, the stars seemed to remember most of their lines — or at least hid any flubs well.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Most likely, the first teamers will have a dress rehearsal on the road in next week’s Aug. 17 at the Houston Texans.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • To be fair to Gardner, only some of the prosthetics made their way into the dress rehearsal of the sketch.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Usually during dress rehearsal, the stuff that Lorne really believes in is put at the top of the show, and Mary was at the bottom.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
  • There are times when the device of a rehearsal, and then ultimately, a final dress rehearsal, comes off as distracting.
    David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024

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