Sentence examples similar to dry run debates from inspiring English sources

Mark Cuban, James Carville – a veteran of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign – and civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz are all potential stand-ins for Trump in dry-run debates.

Although Channel 4's format for the debate was different and less restrictive than the one negotiated for the party leaders, the hour-long exchanges were seen by all three parties as a dry run for the leader debates.

To explain: we have had a dry run for this great debate in the one about the adoption of the euro – indeed, more than a dry run, for with hindsight that decision to stay out has turned out to be the key one shaping the relationship.

This weekend, though, the theater was the scene of another kind of tussling and wrangling: Dick Cheney rented it out on Saturday night for a dry run of his coming vice-presidential debate.

Writing in the Australian Financial Review, Phillip Coorey said the debate was "little more than a dry run".

"A dry run," he says.

They had practiced a dry run together.

(Ironically, its title is "Dry Run").

@nicolaadams2012 won gold in the dry run.

A dry run, if you will.

Not a rehearsal, not a dry run.