trial – English noun declension

English noun forms of trial

Noun: trial
Singulartrial
Pluraltrials

Sample Sentences

  • all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love and thou / Hast strangely stood the test here [c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1:]
  • had my powers been less limited, I might have enforced obedience; but as it was, it was but a trial of strength between her and me, in which she generally came off victorious [1847, Anne Brontë, chapter 3, in Agnes Grey, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 51:]
  • Jama saw the sweaty, smelly work as a kind of test that, if passed, would entitle him to see his father, a trial of his worth as a son and as a man. [2010, Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy, Harper Collins, page 65:]
  • They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.
  • A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).
  • soccer trials; sheepdog trials
  • In both your armies there is many a soul / Shall pay full dearly for this encounter, / If once they join in trial. [c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 1:]
  • If you are convicted at trial, you have the right to file an appeal.
  • He was charged with war crimes and brought to trial before the International Tribunal.
  • The journalists have been held in custody for three years without trial.
  • as she hath / Been publicly accused, so shall she have / A just and open trial [c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
  • She, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold, / Patiently met her doom at the foot of the statue of Justice. [1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Boston: Ticknor, Part 3, p. 42:]
  • […] this case should never have come to trial. [1960, Harper Lee, chapter 20, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia: Lippincott, page 215:]
  • 2020, Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown, New York: Pantheon, Act VI,
  • Your Honor, we object to all of this. The whole thing. This mock trial. The entire justice system is rigged against my client.
  • That boy was a trial to his parents.
  • That they are Cowards, many have said, but few have found it so in the time of Trial. [1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, page 172:]
  • Poor Justine was very ill; but other trials were reserved for her. [1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 5, in Frankenstein, volume 1, London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, page 120:]
  • I’m afraid I’m going to be a dreadful trial to you. Maybe you’d better send me back to the asylum. [1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 12, in Anne of Green Gables, Toronto: Ryerson Press, page 108:]
  • […] I’m not used […] to waiting hungry on others while they eat. It is a sore trial for a hobbit, that. [1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 4, in The Return of the King, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1973, page 98:]
  • You must be strong now, for your greatest trials are still ahead. [2008, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book 2, Chapter 13, p. 365:]
  • Finding my first Seed did not grow, which I easily imagin’d was by the Drought, I sought for a moister Piece of Ground to make another Trial in, [1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, page 123:]
  • He summoned up all his strength for one last trial, and bent his faltering steps towards [the house]. [1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in Oliver Twist, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page 144:]
  • After a dozen trials he succeeded in lighting the lantern, [1913, Willa Cather, chapter 1, in O Pioneers!, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 18:]
  • Before the first living cell was created, there may have been many trials and failures. [1950, Rachel Carson, chapter 1, in The Sea Around Us, New York: Oxford University Press, published 1961, page 7:]

Etymology

From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try. See: Middle English Nouns 'trial'.

Verbs referencing "trial"

Dutch Nouns trial, Finnish Nouns triaali.