REHEARSAL in a Sentence

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For REHEARSAL, below is one of 47 sentences:
TSome people will say that being in choir is lots of involvement because you have both rehearsals and services, which is true.

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 Meanings and Examples of REHEARSAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rehearsal
 n.  exercise or practice to prepare for a public performance
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  To think only of the licence which every rehearsal must tend to create.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  Maria, she also thought, acted well, too well; and after the first rehearsal or two, Fanny began to be their only audience; and sometimes as prompter, sometimes as spectator, was often very useful.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  Tom was enjoying such an advance towards the end; Edmund was in spirits from the morning's rehearsal, and little vexations seemed everywhere smoothed away.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  To own the truth, Sir Thomas, we were in the middle of a rehearsal when you arrived this evening.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  Your cousin came too; and we had a rehearsal.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  The choice of Captain Vye's fuelhouse as the scene of rehearsal was dictated by the fact that his dwelling was nearly in the centre of the heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
7  Seven o'clock, the hour of the rehearsal, came round, and in a short time Eustacia could hear voices in the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
8  The audience behaved indecorously, as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
9  It reminded her of a bad rehearsal.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
10  There was an evening when Carol hoped she was going to make a play; a rehearsal during which Guy stopped looking abashed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  "Fellow ought to be prompt at rehearsals," they all agreed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  It was at rehearsals that the quarrrels broke.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  No one understood that rehearsals were as real engagements as bridge-games or sociables at the Episcopal Church.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  Ecclesford and its theatre, with its arrangements and dresses, rehearsals and jokes, was his never-failing subject, and to boast of the past his only consolation.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The rehearsal process also irked him increasingly.
2  We had assembled for the first rehearsal.
3  Our new production of 'Hamlet' is currently in rehearsal.
4  We only had six days of rehearsal.
5  Please come to the rehearsal for the opening ceremony later on Friday.
6  Well, 120 hours of rehearsal footage was used to make two hours, like, yes, you could kind of whittle it down here.
7  After rehearsals, we'd all troop off to the cafeteria.
8  She always paid for their meals during rehearsals and they would troop off to the Express Dairy cafeteria opposite.
9  The leading man broke his leg in the middle of rehearsals.
10  TSome people will say that being in choir is lots of involvement because you have both rehearsals and services, which is true.
11  I think we need to rehearse the first scene again.
12  Anticipate any tough questions and rehearse your answers.
13  We must carefully structure and rehearse each scene.
14  You can rehearse your presentation to make sure that it fits within a certain time frame.
15  His mother rehearsed his lines with him and by the time the play opened he was word perfect.