1、make some preliminary investigations or test the waters.
2、Sometimes people get curious and want to test the waters.
3、Such work builds your resume and lets you test the waters in your new field.
4、Instead of making direct criticisms, they sometimes offered obliquely sarcastic comments to test the waters.
5、Taking this approach provides the inventor with time to test the waters on his or her invention.
6、I figured the experience might help me identify my strengths and, of course, test the waters before deciding my future career.
7、Readers reluctant to plunge into uncharted international semantic seas can test the waters by completing an exercise in Appendix 2, "Sentences that Need Editing".
8、EXAMPLE: No one was certain about the success of the clever new product, so it was introduced in a few stores just to test the waters before national distribution began.
9、It related to House's back story with Cuddy by giving them something to argue about and test the waters of their work relationship now that they're having a relationship relationship.
