How to Use rehearsal in a Sentence

rehearsal

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  • There are only three more rehearsals before the concert.
  • She was 15 minutes late to rehearsal.
  • If the right dancer is found, that artist must be in the U. S. in time for rehearsals.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • But right from the first rehearsal, he was locked in with us.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The first rehearsal for the fall season is scheduled for Sept. 9.
    — John S. Matuszak, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
  • One by one, the mothers filled the seats, gearing up for rehearsal.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Then, five days out, rehearsal moves to the Common where any passers-by can watch.
    — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • De Sarno in the final rehearsal ahead of his debut show.
    — Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The readings get two weeks of rehearsal, long enough for the show’s writers to make changes in the scripts and score if needed.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • At the prison, rehearsals and the performance were postponed, and no one knew for how long.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • We would be shuffled to and from the theater every day to rehearsals, five hours of them a day.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
  • In one scene, Chloe tires of Steven’s notes and he’s eventually told to leave the rehearsal room.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Cruz has been inspired by them during the give-and-take of rehearsals, and vice versa.
    — Christine Dolen, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And thankfully, due to the weeks of rehearsals that the royals took part in ahead of the coronation, the day went ahead smoothly.
    — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • About halfway through the rehearsal, Elle Fanning arrived with a cup of matcha.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In their rehearsal space, a small whiteboard hangs on the wall, featuring a repertoire of about a dozen songs.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • The film is interwoven with behind-the-scenes footage of rehearsals and home videos.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Crews built re-creations of hallways and rehearsal rooms on a soundstage for some scenes.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Sounds of a folk music rehearsal drifted out of the church, down past a shrine and through the island’s seaside graveyard.
    — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
  • Each had made their way to the lobby for the Tonys screening with their castmates 12 days into rehearsals.
    — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And looking to see what rehearsal space is needed because The Lion King takes a lot.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
  • Aside from that one, funny enough, what comes to mind was a rehearsal for his Cover to Cover tour.
    — Vulture, 31 July 2023
  • The cast had three weeks of rehearsals before shooting began.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • This month, for instance, the Playdate artists were deep into their work at their rehearsal space.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks, named in tribute to the band’s rehearsal space, arrived in the following months.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 Jan. 2024
  • About a week after that rehearsal, a member of the musical died.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Alex even went so far as to don his friend’s Cinderella-like dress during rehearsals to show her all the steps.
    — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Every day before the show there’s soundcheck, there is rehearsal in the soundcheck.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2023
  • At rehearsal, dancers heard footsteps on the stairs, but no one else was in the building, even after one of the male dancers volunteered to check.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • For the video, Lipa burns up the dance floor in a rehearsal room, lending to the song’s future dance-floor domination.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023

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