put to the proof

Example Sentences

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These statements of intent will shortly be put to the proof.

From Forbes • Oct. 15, 2013

The various pieces having been thus severely put to the proof, they were spliced end to end, and the joints or splicings tested.

From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton

I like at any rate to think of our easy overstrainings—the possible flaw in many of which was not indeed to be put to the proof.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

When was your voice heard in the Forum? when has your counsel been put to the proof? when did you do any service either in peace or war?

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

The courage of the people had to be put to the proof, to see whether they were worthy of the heritage of freedom that had been earned by the blood of the fathers.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey