dress rehearsal
noun
1
: a full rehearsal (as of a play) in costume and with stage properties shortly before the first performance
2
: a practice exercise for something to come : dry run
Examples of dress rehearsal in a Sentence
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Onlookers first noticed something was amiss during the first dress rehearsal at Malmö Arena in Sweden on Friday.
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Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 May 2024
Friday’s dress rehearsal brought more unexpected twists, with the representative from the Netherlands, Joost Klein, dramatically pulled from rehearsal.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
Last night, with just 72 hours to go before the 2024 Met Gala, members of the Hollywood elite were attending one of two unofficial dress rehearsals in New York.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
During the third dress rehearsal for the grand final, still in progress at Malmö Arena, the singer from France stopped his performance to deliver a statement.
—Fred Bronson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
The mission, which saw Stafford and Cernan take a luna lander within nine miles of the moon's surface, was a dress rehearsal for Apollo 11's historic moon landing two months later.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
This rocket underwent a wet dress rehearsal on July 18 and was supposed to ignite its Vulcain engine briefly.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023
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
His wife saw the funny side Before the sun had even risen, the 36-year-old was out on the course’s driving range with his wedge, sending shot after shot towards a flag in a dress rehearsal of the do-or-die attempt to come.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 May 2024
Friday’s dress rehearsal brought more unexpected twists, with the representative from the Netherlands, Joost Klein, dramatically pulled from rehearsal.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
Last night, with just 72 hours to go before the 2024 Met Gala, members of the Hollywood elite were attending one of two unofficial dress rehearsals in New York.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
During the third dress rehearsal for the grand final, still in progress at Malmö Arena, the singer from France stopped his performance to deliver a statement.
—Fred Bronson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
The mission, which saw Stafford and Cernan take a luna lander within nine miles of the moon's surface, was a dress rehearsal for Apollo 11's historic moon landing two months later.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
This rocket underwent a wet dress rehearsal on July 18 and was supposed to ignite its Vulcain engine briefly.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023
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
His wife saw the funny side Before the sun had even risen, the 36-year-old was out on the course’s driving range with his wedge, sending shot after shot towards a flag in a dress rehearsal of the do-or-die attempt to come.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
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