Sentence examples for put it through its paces from inspiring English sources

I've spent some days with the first Z1 allowed outside Sony property to put it through its paces.

The pianist Dan Nimmer has a crisp, orderly, ebullient style, and over the last few years he has put it through its paces.

I put it through its paces alongside a conventional wheelie case over ramps, curbs and cobbles in and around Reading station last week.

It was not until Garcia leapt on a horse's back by grabbing a handful of mane and was able to put it through its paces without a saddle or bridle that anyone could see that he had grown up around horses.

In other words, all of its components, both hardware and software, are readily commercially available.To put it through its paces, it was given the task of sorting the items in a database a routine computing operation, except that the database in question contained a terabyte (a million megabytes) of data.

The cimbalom is a variety of zither or dulcimer, a pretty little tablelike instrument, and Mr. Balogh put it through its paces, first plucking its strings, then striking them with various sets of hammers to present a whole range of sound colors in his dazzling opening piece by an 18th-century cimbalom player named Pal Tendi.

Ferrari driver Felipe Massa cannot wait to get behind the wheel of the new F60 again after putting it through its paces around the Mugello race track yesterday.

Second, he puts it through its paces: if it can blend a video camera, it won't be troubled by a pile of strawberries.

"We're not just a bunch of lawyers playing music," Gary S. Greene, who held the group's first rehearsal last January, said before putting it through its paces as conductor.

Enter the Trash the Dress photo session, in which the bride, post-wedding, jumps back into her gown and puts it through its paces — swimming in it, wearing it on horseback, even burning it — all while her photographer clicks away.

And you don't have to be afraid of putting it through its paces, because it ain't gonna break easily.