How to Use dress rehearsal in a Sentence

dress rehearsal

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  • The show’s host has been absent much of the week and missed the dress rehearsal, Belushi complains.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • During a dress rehearsal, the cast’s singing, dialogue, and especially Shrek’s ogre roar could be heard from the parking lot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2021
  • The Thai New Year period this month was supposed to be a dress rehearsal for Phuket’s revival.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Igneczi said before the final dress rehearsal at the Coppell Senior Center.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 11 June 2021
  • On June 18, the Ariane 6 rocket's wet dress rehearsal will be conducted.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 May 2024
  • Fallon also aired a clip from the SNL dress rehearsal to show the world how the dance should have gone, including the star spinning on the stripper pole by his legs.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2021
  • Enlarge / SpaceX's Starship vehicle undergoes a wet dress rehearsal prior to its fourth launch attempt.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 May 2024
  • Typically, the third preseason game was viewed as the dress rehearsal for the regular season, and the starters played till at least the half, before backups and roster long shots took over trying to earn a spot on the roster.
    — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 10 June 2021
  • The North has long regarded the South's joint military exercises with the U.S. as a dress rehearsal for invasion.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 26 June 2024
  • And, indeed, at Monday's dress rehearsal, winding in the dark through vast stretches of empty parking spaces from scene to scene created a disorienting sensation.
    — Mike Silverman, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This all looks like a dress rehearsal for a planned Sea Beyond feature film.
    — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The dress rehearsal lineup is the same as the Air Show schedule on Saturday.
    — al, 7 July 2022
  • Of course, this assumes that the wet dress rehearsal test is completed in two days.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
  • But Tuesday is much more than just a dress rehearsal for next year's big kahuna.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Her body lay in state in St. Giles’ in what amounted to a dress rehearsal for the state funeral in London.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • The wet dress rehearsal will aim to bring the countdown clock nearly to 0, but won’t ignite the massive engines.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Apr. 2022

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