1.   Before selecting your tunes, you can sample the offerings at the site.

2.   Novices and connoisseurs stood shoulder-to-shoulder, eager to sample the offerings of wineries from coast to coast.

3.   Or you can sample offerings from an ample selection of ready-made Russian foods, from blini to dumplings to stuffed cabbage.

4.   Rob Glaser, the RealNetworks chief executive who serves as chairman of MusicNet, sampled his offering for the congressional committee.

5.   The concept is not new but largely confined to smaller operations that do not let you sample many offerings.

6.   The Internet is a good place to sample hotel offerings in a city, learn the location, see the property and get a feel for prices.

7.   To find the perfect brownie, I sampled the offerings of eight companies that had appeared in past columns.

8.   Which is precisely why you should at least sample the fall offerings, starting about now.