How to Use on a trial basis in a Sentence

on a trial basis

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  • The new rule is in place on a trial basis for the 2023 season.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The free parking on Saturday nights will be on a trial basis.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The city’s timeline has officers using body cameras on a trial basis by the end of the year.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Hannifin recalls a recent flight where the airline scrapped its paper cups on a trial basis.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The burger chain didn't give an exact time frame for the offer, but said the $5 meal would begin on a trial basis.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The adopters currently have Olympus on a trial basis.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Chris Barnes recalled, noting that was enough to convince them to bend their bedtime phone ban on a trial basis.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The fee will be rolled out on a trial basis mainly during spring bank holidays and summer weekends when the city is at its most crowded.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Several crisis response programs have sprouted across the city on a trial basis.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
  • Deliveries, where available, are free for members of the Walmart+ service on a trial basis.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The birds are gradually being introduced to Palmyra Atoll on a trial basis, where there are no brown tree snakes.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Some members of the council questioned whether the service would be noisy, but local officials appeared ready to support the change on a trial basis.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The fee will be implemented on a trial basis mainly during spring bank holidays and summer weekends when the city is at its most crowded.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The private sponsorship model has already been tested on a trial basis over the past two years with refugees from Afghanistan and Ukraine.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • This year, however, one troop was reportedly allowed to sell outside the dispensary on a trial basis.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Finally, Johnson found a neurologist willing to prescribe it on a trial basis.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Sky News this week reported(Opens in a new window) that the service will operate on a trial basis until 2025.
    — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 16 May 2023
  • Prototypes for both technologies are being deployed on a trial basis, and Grogan expects both to be in full operation by next year.
    — Aryn Baker, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Some type of vision and hearing coverage look likely to be included in the final bill, but expensive dental benefits may be only on a trial basis.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Bidens brought the puppies into their home on a trial basis before making the adoption official, the organization said.
    — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Amber Schulman, Ellie’s teacher this past school year, was among the first teachers to pilot the curriculum by teaching it on a trial basis in her classroom.
    — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
  • The club hired an external specialist at the end of last season on a trial basis to help analyse account login data and fans’ behaviour online to try to tackle the issues.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • So far, Biolyz has amassed eight soccer clients across continental Europe, between full-time customers and those testing the service on a trial basis.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Measurements were taken this year in spring training before the system was used on a trial basis at select parks in Cactus and Grapefruit League games.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • American Airlines added the forecasts to its flight planning system on a trial basis to show where pilots could safely shift altitude or use optional routes to avoid those areas.
    — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Right now, Aurora Sinai is the only hospital in southeast Wisconsin where the water birth option is available, and even that is on a trial basis.
    — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The one experience San Francisco has with lower limits is in the Tenderloin, where the top speed was reduced to 20 mph last year on a trial basis.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Saying that enforcement is a complicated issue, Horn said that one of the answers might be speed cameras that are expected later this year on a trial basis in work zones on highways in Connecticut.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The push to verify political accounts began Wednesday on a trial basis and applies to governments, politicians and political parties on the platform, the company said in a blog post.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The burger chain didn't give an exact time frame for the offer, but said the $5 meal will begin on a trial basis ahead of the McDonald's $5 promo which is slated to launch June 25.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 24 May 2024

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