How to Use fire drill in a Sentence

fire drill

noun
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  • 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 campus was busy with lots of meetings and a fire drill.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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 | Mrodak@al.com, al, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Have a home fire escape plan and practice at-home fire drills.
    — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • 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

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