Sentences with trial
tri·al
T t - New evidence showed the police lied at the trial.
- They have been treated with this drug in clinical trials.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: trial implies the trying of a person or thing in order to establish worth in actual performance [hired on trial]; experiment implies a showing by trial whether a thing will be effective [the honor system was instituted as an experiment] and, in addition, is used of any action or process undertaken to discover something not yet known or to demonstrate something known [experiments in nuclear physics]; test1 implies a putting of a thing to decisive proof by thorough examination or trial under controlled conditions and with fixed standards in mind [a test of a new jet plane]
- He had just given a trial to a young woman who said she had previous experience.
- ...the trials of adolescence. [+ of]
- He has been riding in horse trials for less than a year.
- A trial run
- We had three trials at the climb
- Sheepdog trials
- The idea has been trialled in several schools
- A trial offer.