How to Use field trip in a Sentence

field trip

noun
  • We went on a field trip.
  • We took a class field trip to the power plant.
  • In 8th grade, our class took a field trip to tour the high school.
    Yasmine Koenig As Told To Liz Welch, Seventeen, 13 Oct. 2017
  • All the schools around Durham, N.C. take field trips there.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • There This isn’t the first time the two have taken a field trip.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Tom Wallisch has a soft spot for the kids on the field trip.
    Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2021
  • But the bones of Meraxes were found on the first day of a 2012 field trip.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • Leo goes on a field trip with the class, and Remi is nowhere to be found.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 May 2022
  • The bus was one of three taking students on the field trip.
    Mahita Gajanan, Time, 17 May 2018
  • Overall, the weekend felt a bit like one long field trip to the morgue.
    Matthew Scogin, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Gillmore-Wolter said the area isn’t safe for school field trips.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Students spent much of the last two weeks out of the classroom on field trips.
    Ajc Homepage, ajc, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The students go on field trips to the shelter, and learn how to show love and care to cats and dogs.
    Talia Richman, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
  • The field trips didn’t just involve time in the pool, Bejster added.
    Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 1 July 2018
  • For the first time in months, Ms. Carol Smith’s fourth-grade class heads out for a field trip.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The message was clear: This is not a leisurely class field trip.
    Scott Miller, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Cost is $495 and includes snacks, lunch, two t-shirts, and all field trips.
    Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The girls have a field trip to her office scheduled soon.
    Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • My students in second grade took a field trip to the rock shows.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • School field trips in these spring days are a sure sign of the season, the beginning of the end of the school year.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
  • Decades ago, Earth Day meant planting a tree on a school field trip.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The teen was in the courtroom as part of a field trip when King called her out for sleeping.
    Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Between the lines: The field trip was more than just admiring the art.
    Shafaq Patel, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Rescue Ranch has been a hotspot for field trips from schools in the region.
    Jordan Airington, kansascity, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Rodriguez said on a field trip with her 4-year-old, while Melanie was in school.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
  • At Camp, children will spend time outdoors in the city's parks, at the city pool and on field trips.
    Julie A. Short/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The field trip to Preservation Hall came at the perfect time.
    Sarah McKinney Gibson, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2022
  • And state funding for out-of-school learning has led to a huge bump in field trips.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • The school children were on their way back from a field trip when Enrique Cisneros allegedly pulled up in his mom's car with his genitals out and made faces at them while exposing himself.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 24 June 2025
  • The four-day immersive camp will feature interactive lectures, hands-on laboratory work, field trips and real-world exposure to the many facets of forensic science.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025

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