diff --git a/sklearn/metrics/tests/test_common.py b/sklearn/metrics/tests/test_common.py
index 9e94b9241de7a..096fc82ae56e3 100644
--- a/sklearn/metrics/tests/test_common.py
+++ b/sklearn/metrics/tests/test_common.py
@@ -1896,6 +1896,10 @@ def check_array_api_metric_pairwise(metric, array_namespace, device, dtype_name)
 
     metric_kwargs = {}
     if "dense_output" in signature(metric).parameters:
+        metric_kwargs["dense_output"] = False
+        check_array_api_metric(
+            metric, array_namespace, device, dtype_name, a_np=X_np, b_np=Y_np
+        )
         metric_kwargs["dense_output"] = True
 
     check_array_api_metric(