tryout

Example Sentences

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Also baseball players are not allowed to participate in a professional tryout during their season.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 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

It is said to be the first tryout for the six-time Pro Bowl player since serving a 10-game suspension at the start of this season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

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

If I thought I was doing well by ranking first in the previous tryout, that’s nothing compared to how much the researchers love Elsie.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston