Examples of drag race in a Sentence
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Sometime during the pandemic, the streets surrounding our apartment building had turned into a homicidal four-wide drag race.
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
An informal drag race of an EX vs. an [F-15] E model at Eglin resulted in an easy win for the EX.
—Eric Tegler, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
The Waukegan man, 60, was drag racing a Mazda 3 south on Sheridan Road, witnesses told police.
—Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
RuPaul’s Drag Race Puzzle RuPaul hasn’t been crowned the queen of drag race for nothing.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
The torque figure is achieved at a wonderfully low 2000 rpm, making stoplight drag racing a reality.
—Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2023
On Thursday Musk revealed all his secrets, wowing the audience with footage of the pickup beating a Porsche 911 in a quarter mile drag race … while towing another 911 behind it.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
Amusingly, Musk showed a video of a Cybertruck handily beating a Porsche 911 in a drag race... while towing another Porsche 911.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
If that sounds like a cynical ploy at first, an attempt to drag race into the spotlight, the movie’s persuasive rejoinder is that race is never irrelevant, especially where matters of corporate malfeasance, jury selection and the South are concerned.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
An informal drag race of an EX vs. an [F-15] E model at Eglin resulted in an easy win for the EX.
—Eric Tegler, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
The Waukegan man, 60, was drag racing a Mazda 3 south on Sheridan Road, witnesses told police.
—Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
RuPaul’s Drag Race Puzzle RuPaul hasn’t been crowned the queen of drag race for nothing.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
The torque figure is achieved at a wonderfully low 2000 rpm, making stoplight drag racing a reality.
—Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2023
On Thursday Musk revealed all his secrets, wowing the audience with footage of the pickup beating a Porsche 911 in a quarter mile drag race … while towing another 911 behind it.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
Amusingly, Musk showed a video of a Cybertruck handily beating a Porsche 911 in a drag race... while towing another Porsche 911.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
If that sounds like a cynical ploy at first, an attempt to drag race into the spotlight, the movie’s persuasive rejoinder is that race is never irrelevant, especially where matters of corporate malfeasance, jury selection and the South are concerned.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1948, in the meaning defined above
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drag race
noun
: a race between two vehicles to see which can accelerate faster
drag racer
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