How to Use time trial in a Sentence

time trial

noun

• He posted the second best lap in the time trials.
• 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
• At the Paris Olympics, the men’s time trial is scheduled for July 27, and the men’s road race is Aug. 3.
  — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 29 June 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
• Chloe Dygert, who took bronze in the July 27 time trial, will be there, as well.
  — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The only teammate who beat me was the one team member who had missed the time trial.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• His strongest suit, however, was the time trial, or race against the clock.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• 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
• In road cycling, there are road races, time trials, and relay events.
  — Molly Higgins, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• But the journey from Italy to U.S. living rooms proved to be the ultimate time trial in the pre-satellite era.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 July 2021
• Leah Thomas and Kristen Faulkner both have podium shots in the road time trial, though.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• In Tokyo, she was 31st in the road race and seventh in the individual time trial.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2021
• And remember: the goal is to substitute for a tempo run, not a time trial or a race.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 22 Jan. 2020
• Busch led a sweep of the top three spots for Stewart-Haas Racing after 15 minutes of time trials.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Ryan Boyle is a tricyclist, competing in the time trial and road race events.
  — al, 7 Apr. 2021
• Pogacar grabbed the yellow jersey there in 2020 by crushing Roglic in a dramatic time trial on the eve of the finish.
  — Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• 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
• The focus now shifts to the time trial where Roglic will be aiming to secure his first Tour title, and the first at the 117-year-old race by a Slovenian.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• Also, this test is based on performance in a solo time trial, not a race.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 24 June 2020
• 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
• The Colombian climber is just 24, has excellent time trial abilities and should be Pogacar’s main rival in the years to come.
  — Samuel Petrequin, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 July 2021
• The Tour de France starts today with a time trial around the streets of Copenhagen; the most northerly ever start for the world’s largest annual sporting event.
  — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• Van Vleuten, the world time trial champion in 2020, was part of a dream team of world champions heavily favored to win gold in the road race.
  — Dave Skretta, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
• The 14 cyclists in the study did three 40-kilometer time trials: one for practice, one with Maurten baking soda, and one with a placebo that was designed to look and taste like Maurten but didn’t contain any baking soda.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024