Warm-up used in a sentence

Warm-up in a sentence as a noun

This is the warm-up. - By this point, my brain is in full-on work mode.

It's not surprising that the pipeline in Emeryville was far more advanced, seeing how Witkin and Baraff created the Maya physics engine as a warm-up for their Pixar system. By now, there are better solvers in many physics systems...