How to Use prototype in a Sentence

prototype

noun
Definition of prototypenext
Synonyms for prototypenext
  • They tested the prototype of the car.
  • He is the prototype of a conservative businessman.
  • He is developing a prototype for his invention.
  • The Sherlock Holmes stories are the prototypes of modern detective stories.
  • The film is now seen as the prototype for sleek, stylish action-thrillers.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • McVay was the prototype of the latest hot thing in the NFL: the bright, young football mind.
    — Clara Ence Morse, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The one-of-a-kind prototype cleans carbon from the air while driving.
    — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The team displayed the prototype at a high school fair, and a young amputee named Ernest Priester, 13, asked to try it on.
    — Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Oh no, Marco left product prototypes in the Uber with the hot guy and gets fired!
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 3 July 2023
  • In 2019, the team came up with their first prototype of an eco-friendly battery.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In the meantime, the friends will continue to perfect the prototype.
    — Ebonee Burrell, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The goal would be to produce two prototypes by 2028 for testing and trial runs.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Well, the alpha version is the first version, the first prototype version.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Advertisement And all of the prototypes were made by sixth-graders.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • At least one prototype was alleged to have already flown, way back in 2020.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • Ten months after the new Learjet Corp. set up in Kansas, the first Learjet 23 prototype was ready to fly.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
  • Sony has formed a joint venture with Honda to build an electric prototype called Afeela, due to ship in 2026.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2024
  • McGee, who died Nov. 27 at age 87 in Gardnerville, Nev., defined the prototype.
    — James Raia, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Boutiette was persuaded on a hunch in 2017 to try a prototype of the cream, which had helped with cold sores and rashes, the couple said.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • But even the first prototype has yet to take flight, with the first test not expected until later this year.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
  • What were your key learnings from building the prototype?
    — Aparna Dhinakaran, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The new store could be a prototype for Publix’s new store concept called GreenWise stores.
    — Kathy Jumper, al, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The runway was lined with ecru muslin, which fashion houses use to make prototypes.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The current version of the evergreen rock ‘n roller is like a waxwork of the 1976 punk prototype Idol—in the best possible way.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Wardle originally made a prototype of the game back in 2013 and shelved it.
    — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The dream seems ever constant: to fashion that fresh start, to build a living prototype that will inspire the world.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The prototype could whip foam faster than the blender currently in use, and closer to a store’s espresso machines.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Even LePage, who once claimed to be the Trump prototype, never invoked his name.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Land drones, on wheels or tracks, were carrying out suicide strikes; new prototypes aimed and fired machine guns.
    — C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • It's been confirmed that prototype testing has already begun, and the inevitable spy shots show a crossover-like profile complete with fake exhausts, and nothing like the SF90 Stradale hybrid shown above.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025

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