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Definition of Tryouts
1. tryout [n] - See also: tryout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tryouts
Literary usage of Tryouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Debaters' Manual by Edith M. Phelps (1922)
"Debating teams should always be selected by competitive tryouts in which each
... In recent years the practice has grown up in college debating tryouts of ..."
2. Annual Proceedings: Addresses, Reports, Bibliographies and Discussions (1916)
"A DELEGATE: I hesitate to say anything on this matter of supervised tryouts,
because we are just about to begin a tryout of a supervised tryout. ..."
3. The Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae by Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.) (1917)
"This- board engaged the dramatic coach who had directed the pageant and with him
chose the principal actors and held tryouts open to- all members of the ..."
4. Choosing a Play, Revised and Enlarged: Suggestions and Bibliography for the by Gertrude Elizabeth Johnson (1920)
"Often tryouts would be unnecessary and a waste of time, the coach being entirely
... If tryouts are used, the parts need not be memorized, and the reading ..."
5. Let 'er Buck, a Story of the Passing of the Old West by Charles Wellington Furlong (1921)
"... the morning "tryouts," which occur on the days just preceding the great show,
and the elimination contests on the second morning of it, make an inherent ..."
6. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"There have been several trips, all tryouts. I was informed at the Foreign Office
a month ago that •when the representative of so important a paper as THE ..."
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