test-drove
- past tense form of test-drive.
Example Sentences
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The pilots who are already at the Olympics all tell similar stories about the day their lives changed forever when they first test-drove a first-person view drone simulator.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Hudson added that when he was starting out he test-drove the more popular Hammond B-3 organ, but he was drawn to a model made by a smaller company, Lowrey.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025
During a July solo appearance at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, Lowe test-drove four of the album’s tracks, including “Love Starvation,” “Blue on Blue,” “Trombone,” and “Tokyo Bay.”
From Salon • Sep. 13, 2024
After Mr. Biden’s visit to Ford last year, when he test-drove the electric F-150 Lightning, the company received 200,000 reservations for the new truck.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Joe Biden had some words of praise for the Ford F-150 Lightning, the brand new electric pick-up truck that the president test-drove in Michigan this week: “This sucker’s quick.”
From Slate • May 21, 2021
