Examples of use of dry run
1. Just who would do that, except for a terrorist conducting a dry run?
2. Customs officials said that it could have been a dry run for his later drug smuggling.
3. "Today, we‘re kind of doing a dry run," said Jeff Jeudy of Brooklyn, N.Y.
4. It was, as all admitted, a dry run for elections to a national assembly.
5. Many experts believe the SARS experience amounted to a dry run for a much more dangerous flu pandemic.