How to Use fire drill in a Sentence

fire drill

noun
  • So what was this fire drill all about?
    — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The Poland attack was a fire drill.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • If something went wrong, an alarm as loud as a fire drill would sound.
    — Neil Bedi, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Have a home fire escape plan and practice at-home fire drills.
    — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Future space rocks might, though – thus this first-of-its-kind cosmic fire drill.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Discovery has run though this sort of fire drill in the recent past.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • In terms of approach, this week has been a fire drill every morning.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The plan involves a fake fire drill and yearbook photos, too.
    — Lindsay Deutsch, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2020
  • This week’s fire drill — the year’s last — was sparsely attended.
    — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The day started normally at the school, which had a morning fire drill.
    — Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • It might best be described as the day care's normal fire drill procedures on steroids.
    — Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2016
  • In a fire drill, everybody goes outside, there's a rally point.
    — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2017
  • But once the season starts, the only group with time to work on such fire drill-type plays is the kicking trio.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There were highly memorable hallway fights, fire drills, and field trips.
    — Stacey Curran, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Pupils and staff practice rapid-dismissal drills, formerly called fire drills, six times a year.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Preparation for the two-day fire drill began more than a month beforehand.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The news came over the intercom like an announcement about the lunch menu or a reminder about fire drills.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Along with standard fire drills, many schools are beginning to do active shooter drills.
    — Terri A. Erbacher, Ph.d., Philly.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Almost akin to a fire drill at school, when a whale appeared, the village would leap into action.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Leaders are drowning in data, email threads, Slack pings, Zoom calls and fire drills.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The director of the facility talked about fire drills and locking doors.
    — Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2016
  • These were move-and-fire drills, two men always firing, providing cover, while the other two ran ahead.
    — David Quammen, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The amendment would not affect lockdown or fire drills, only active shooter drills.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This is the second time in recent weeks sailors have received warning about an Iranian live fire drill.
    — ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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