How to Use tryout in a Sentence

tryout

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  • Open tryouts for the team are next Monday.
  • Maintain an even demeanor up to and on the day of the tryout.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Until that tryout, Sue’sue had yet to hear much about him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Daniels wasn’t coming to OSU for a tryout, at least to outsiders.
    — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2022
  • But the team proved itself over what amounted to a two-game tryout during the fall in front of IIHF brass.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
  • So in late 2019, the A’s decided to hold an open tryout for pitchers.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The song fell flat during tryouts, and Streisand kept pleading.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • In college at Arizona, Havrisik was the long-distance kicker, and the Colts are the first team to sign him off of a tryout.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Frost most certainly did when the tryout resumed the next day.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • Who knew a church dance tryout would result in one of the year’s strongest film monologues?
    — William Earl, Variety, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The first part of the tryout was a scrimmage, and for the second part, players showed off their specialties.
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The show has begun its out of town tryout in Boston, and Diamond has been there to get in on the fun.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 July 2022
  • Tyron Johnson, who had a tryout with the club on Monday, was signed to take his place.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 6 June 2023
  • As the tryout continued, the audience and the judges were left gasping.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2023
  • The Lions invited him to a tryout, then signed him to a contract on Aug. 3.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Schebler’s tip to the Reds earned Gozzo a tryout during 2020 spring training.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The day of the tryout, the Ramirezes had another appointment across town and were running late.
    — Longreads, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But even Keough jokes that her tryout went a little better than Claflin’s.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
  • When coach James Jimenez first watched 12-year-old Kern at a softball tryout, one of the things that stood out about her was diving for balls.
    — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2023
  • Means, 31, played well in his tryout at the team’s mandatory minicamp this week.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2022
  • Get in the Halloween spirit (and give your costume an early tryout) at one of these spooky and fun events.
    — Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • And unlike national tours, Broadway tryouts are cast with the same stars who soon will take the stage in New York.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The mission was a tryout of sorts for Spencer, too, and Desolation at large.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Romo, 25, kicked in the XFL this year and signed on after a strong rookie minicamp tryout in May.
    — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
  • His dad played for Oldenburg in 1954, and as a boy Jim warmed up Sandy Koufax before the tryout.
    — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022
  • The Texans are giving Davis Mills a full-season tryout.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The out-of-contention Angels appear to be giving him what amounts to a tryout for next season.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • In 2021, Carter went to the Houston Texans’ rookie minicamp as a tryout player and earned a contract with the team.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2023
  • He was given a tryout at tight end by the Indianapolis Colts in 2019.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2022
  • This is also a tryout to quarterback the New York Jets on Sunday.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022

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