tryout

Example Sentences

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“That’s hard to do. But at many of these places, you can do a tryout and stay in a unit for a week,” said Horowitz.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

But on the day it mattered most, she flubbed her tryout and failed to make the team.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

The show is inspired by a 2022 short video featuring an undercover Eli Manning as a walk-on at a Penn State football tryout.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

You see this guy’s arm, just like they did in Eli’s tryout video, you’re like, “That’s a pro arm, that’s an arm that deserves to go all the way.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

And it might be that some coaches somewhere would delay a tryout on an afternoon when some of the tryoutees have just been traumatized by two gigantic rats falling out of their classroom ceiling.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt