Sentence examples for at a tryout from inspiring English sources

Yet Erstad approached the game with the desperation of an overachiever at a tryout camp.

Asia hit a few balls at a tryout clinic; that was good enough.

I was signed by a young scout by the name of Pat Gillick at a tryout in Saskatchewan.

At a tryout at Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn Dodgers' manager then, Casey Stengel, ignored the tiny teen-ager.

Bryant met Assad, who runs the Modesto camps, at a tryout that he was holding for the short-lived XFL.

At a tryout, he threw a pass with such force and accuracy that the coach said, "You are the quarterback".

Poor Gordon Brown needs six months at Rada and a tryout at the Old Vic.

City Opera bravely championed works by living composers, including pieces that had not gotten their due, like Richard Rodney Bennett's 1965 Gothic horror tale, "The Mines of Sulphur," which faded away but then became an improbable hit at City Opera in 2005 after a tryout at the Glimmerglass Opera.

Then, unexpectedly, a coach at Utah State secured a tryout for him with a C.F.L. team then based in Las Vegas.

"The camp is not at all about a tryout; that wouldn't be fair to the players," Steve Yzerman, executive director of the Canadian team, said Wednesday.

When Anderson graduated from Neville in 1974, he said, Brown came to his mother's house with a recruiter and helped secure a tryout at Louisiana Tech at a time when few black players found opportunities at Southern universities.