How to Use fire drill in a Sentence

fire drill

noun

• At school, in the 1980s, Moss and his classmates participated in rapture drills, akin to earthquake or fire drills.
  — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• Then came a fire drill that changed the course of his life.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• It’s gone back and forth like some type of a fire drill.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• The handmaids all get on their hands and knees to pray (it’s like a fire drill, but for prayer).
  — refinery29.com, 6 June 2018
• If something went wrong, an alarm as loud as a fire drill would sound.
  — Neil Bedi, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2021
• If the wild days before the Oct. 17 game against Georgia served as a fire drill, this is the real deal.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 25 Nov. 2020
• Practice a two-minute fire drill from your home to a safe meeting place at least twice a year.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
• Discovery has run though this sort of fire drill in the recent past.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
• The plan involves a fake fire drill and yearbook photos, too.
  — Lindsay Deutsch, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2020
• Griffin Kell field goal that could have doubled as a fire drill.
  — Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2022
• So much of life is running like a fire drill from one thing to another.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 12 July 2018
• Future space rocks might, though – thus this first-of-its-kind cosmic fire drill.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2017
• The day started normally at the school, which had a morning fire drill.
  — Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• In terms of approach, this week has been a fire drill every morning.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• This week’s fire drill — the year’s last — was sparsely attended.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2019
• Photo: Courtesy of Fox. 9-1-1 TV series fans, this is not a fire drill!
  — Tara Edwards, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• There wasn't a ton to be gleaned from the drill since it was done at about three-quarters speed and with no pass rush, but the idea was to work on their field-goal fire drill.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2018
• There have been close games, certainly, but no games in which the Eagles were running around in fire drill mode.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• It might best be described as the day care's normal fire drill procedures on steroids.
  — Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2016
• The entries too often have looked like comic Keystone Kops fire drills for the better part of three months.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• China also held a live-fire drill near Taiwan two years ago.
  — Ralph Jennings, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The exercise that draws the most ire from North Korea comes each spring - known as Foal Eagle - when large live fire drills are held.
  — Fox News, 13 June 2018
• There is also what amounts to a live fire drill, with drivers driving up to the tower wearing all their gear.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 29 July 2019
• Pupils and staff practice rapid-dismissal drills, formerly called fire drills, six times a year.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• In a fire drill, everybody goes outside, there's a rally point.
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2017
• The director of the facility talked about fire drills and locking doors.
  — Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2016
• The defense returns 10 starters this year and is loaded with experience thanks to last year’s fire drill.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 28 Aug. 2019
• In October, dozens of rats were seen scurrying across the warehouse floor during a fire drill.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2022
• Gen Xers only had to contend with the occasional fire drill.
  — Townsend Belisle, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• After the fire, New York began requiring automatic sprinklers in tall buildings and fire drills in large workplaces.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024