How to Use prototype in a Sentence

prototype

noun
  • They tested the prototype of the car.
  • He is the prototype of a conservative businessman.
  • He is developing a prototype for his invention.
  • The Sherlock Holmes stories are the prototypes of modern detective stories.
  • The film is now seen as the prototype for sleek, stylish action-thrillers.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • McVay was the prototype of the latest hot thing in the NFL: the bright, young football mind.
    Clara Ence Morse, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The one-of-a-kind prototype cleans carbon from the air while driving.
    Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The team displayed the prototype at a high school fair, and a young amputee named Ernest Priester, 13, asked to try it on.
    Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Oh no, Marco left product prototypes in the Uber with the hot guy and gets fired!
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 3 July 2023
  • In the meantime, the friends will continue to perfect the prototype.
    Ebonee Burrell, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The goal would be to produce two prototypes by 2028 for testing and trial runs.
    Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Well, the alpha version is the first version, the first prototype version.
    WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Advertisement And all of the prototypes were made by sixth-graders.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • At least one prototype was alleged to have already flown, way back in 2020.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • Ten months after the new Learjet Corp. set up in Kansas, the first Learjet 23 prototype was ready to fly.
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
  • Sony has formed a joint venture with Honda to build an electric prototype called Afeela, due to ship in 2026.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Boutiette was persuaded on a hunch in 2017 to try a prototype of the cream, which had helped with cold sores and rashes, the couple said.
    Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • What were your key learnings from building the prototype?
    Aparna Dhinakaran, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The new store could be a prototype for Publix’s new store concept called GreenWise stores.
    Kathy Jumper, al, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The runway was lined with ecru muslin, which fashion houses use to make prototypes.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The current version of the evergreen rock ‘n roller is like a waxwork of the 1976 punk prototype Idol—in the best possible way.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Wardle originally made a prototype of the game back in 2013 and shelved it.
    Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The dream seems ever constant: to fashion that fresh start, to build a living prototype that will inspire the world.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Even LePage, who once claimed to be the Trump prototype, never invoked his name.
    Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • In a lab space one room over, prototype buoys were pummeled by water churning in wave tanks.
    Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The brand also has plans to release makeup — a clear nod to the toy’s original prototype.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 24 July 2024
  • So far, Beta has built a prototype of each, both of which are flown nearly every day, Clark says.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Pei is careful to say that these are brand-new prototypes and that even messing with your homescreen will take a while to happen.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 5 June 2024
  • The company is now in the process of building three new prototypes, which will be subjected to both air and ground testing over the next 18 months.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
  • By 2014 Rosenberger had some all-aluminum prototypes ready to test.
    Cameron Martindell, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2024

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