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    Use "drill" in a sentence

    drill example sentences

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    1. understand the most critical element, I’m going to drill it into your head


    2. What impressed her the most was that they were able to call up such learned information and drill so deeply into the science behind it and get the 3-d plot


    3. It was several minutes while he got the arms deployed and the drill started


    4. The drill bottomed out, he had to unship and install the collector tubes and then the motor itself


    5. 'Boys, run around the backyard twenty times,' Ish ordered in his drill sergeant


    6. It's logged and you know the drill


    7. drill sergeant came for inspections—and now he remembered that he stood only


    8. seen him drill through the words of countless pages, he rarely opened one these


    9. “What concern of yours is that? Did your father not drill prudence into you along with


    10. sugar-cane, as it is managed at present, is all hand labour ; though, in the opinion of many, the drill plough might be introduced into it with great advantage

    11. The drill had penetrated


    12. “How are we going to proceed with this? Ky here is going to drill a hole in it


    13. Handling it rather like a soldier would handle an assault rifle, he dropped the rear handle onto his boot, loosened the chuck at the business end and dropped a shiny, black drill bit into it


    14. ” he announced as he lifted the whole drill back to waist height


    15. “Where’s the best place to drill this thing?” asked Mark


    16. “How 'bout I drill the middle of the surface?” suggested Ky, “It’s safer than drilling near an edge


    17. Ky dropped his goggles over his eyes, lifted the drill into position and braced himself against it


    18. They all watched intently as Ky aligned the drill again


    19. After a few seconds he released the trigger and pulled the drill away


    20. “There’s no way this is Earth technology,” said Chris, “We can make stuff that’s pretty resistant, but to take on a diamond tipped drill and remain unscratched? And how would you make a large, contiguous block of such material?”

    21. “This isn’t a drill


    22. While we where here on Salisbury plain the training really intensified the route marches got longer and the whole physical training side was stepped up as well as firing practice and tactical problems bayonet drill and obviously fatigues and working parties


    23. He knew the drill well, for it was the same


    24. I was wondering if you have a drill and screwdrivers, that sort of thing?”


    25. With image feed into his visual field, Gerrid was able to carefully control the drill at the node point until it got through the casing


    26. I knew by now that a friendly drill sergeant was a bomb waiting to explode, and made sure to stand as far away as possible from the scene, minding my own business


    27. Soon after our arrival we were issued with R1 (SLR) rifles for drill purposes only, which we kept in the above boxes when not used


    28. Our rifle drill never included bayonet drill, which is a pity for it is a wonderful sight to watch a thousand men on parade receiving the order to install their bayonets onto their rifles


    29. Those PT Sergeants were excellent people, being much friendlier than the drill instructors


    30. There was also a display drill which 700 men took part in

    31. I told him not to try and make a trench for the footings; just drill holes in the solid granite where the footings would go then drive rebar into the holes, set his blocks over them and pour the concrete into them


    32. I used to drill wells around a suspect site and interpret the data from them to track the contamination to its source


    33. “Okay! Boys, you know the drill,” another familiar voice heard in the background


    34. It was under a few millimetres of concrete but it had taken the best part of an hour to drill the holes and set up the charges


    35. Marches boomed impressively from the loudspeakers, and the honor guard briskly went through its drill


    36. Now face down on the deck, arms and legs spread, you know the drill


    37. What’s on your mind? New ways to drill us to death? Make us more miserable? Take away our cir rations? What is it that’s had you daydreaming?”


    38. Daily close order drill was held by way of rehearsal


    39. bill would allow us to drill for natural gas off the US coast but that hasn"t received final approval


    40. Cuba and China have formed a joint venture to drill for oil just 50 miles off the coast of Florida

    41. Everyone else has off shore mining and our decisions to not drill do not have much effect on the mining


    42. foreign oil would have required them to develop or mine or drill or build and those are not the activities


    43. “Is that the same as an attack drill?”


    44. Again she repeated the attack drill, but this time she shouted,


    45. drill with the skill of an expert Kendo fighter


    46. debate class on a drill to improve their


    47. water you do not dig small pits all over the place, but drill deep


    48. We repeated the drill by the apartment’s pool Sunday AM and early afternoon until she poured me on my flight to LAX


    49. It is hard to understand why our government is unwilling to drill for oil


    50. Cuba and China have formed a joint venture to drill for oil just 75 miles off the coast of Florida














































    1. 34 bus, going over the Charles River when a harsh voice drilled into his ears from behind


    2. The keyboard was a little wooden plank with some holes drilled in it and an optical fiber coming out


    3. had it drilled into me to believe I would never be good


    4. They were drilled ten hours a day in fighting techniques


    5. Six months straight they drilled them, never letting up


    6. had been drilled in exercises


    7. The new ones were just drilled into plain lumber with grooves cut in the bottom for the fibers


    8. He had four officers working for him, but he tended to be a little over enthusiastic about his job, and he constantly drilled and trained them like they were his personal army


    9. This fact was drilled into us for the courts were very fair in those days (procedurally) and would act when needed


    10. “Those are the kind of brutes we’re drilled to subdue

    11. After we received our Golf Gti’s a rumour started that a small hole drilled in the inlet manifold (or something) would increase the air mixture of the fuel injection and thus more performance


    12. But when she dropped Eddie Ralston"s name, Langdon, who must have been assessing the plausibility of what was being said, suddenly lurched forward and drilled Mia with a force ten glare


    13. For emphasis I drilled another round just over his back


    14. He turned the stick on its head and saw that a large-headed nail had been expertly drilled into the ground-most tip


    15. Because there’s still large fields that haven’t even been drilled, much less taken real advantage of


    16. The kids at school tormented me for spouting the “Christian convictions” my father had drilled into me (my brothers wisely kept their mouths shut), but when I sang, they admired me


    17. drilled from the Atlantic ten years earlier


    18. Finding the well that had been drilled for them was a


    19. McGarrah found out that there was a Reserve JAG company that drilled in Jackson, 200 miles north, one weekend per month


    20. drilled out that it is already clear

    21. drilled for the bottom anchor


    22. Here beside the door are several addresses carved into the stone, and this drilled sapphire slides up and down on its platinum rod, indicating which of the addresses is on the other side of the Plane door


    23. For long moments his eyes drilled into the hills at midlevel


    24. help his ears to hear even slight sounds, as his eyes drilled the night ahead of him


    25. The next few weeks dragged by and Lorna thought that the time to depart was never going to arrive Two days before she was due to leave, Lorna drilled Sally in looking after the house and gave her a few hundred Rand with a promise of more on her return, provided that her house and garden were in good order


    26. believe get mixed up with the things that were drilled into me,


    27. workings of God had been relentlessly drilled into us throughout


    28. He drilled them briefly in clock orientation and signals


    29. He'd cut and drilled a new pipe for the hold-down, and transferred the old holes to the bottom of his chest


    30. He went to the large line and drilled a hole below the tee

    31. Barrad’s well drilled footwork carried him to safety, but the giant now seized the initiative and stormed forward in an attempt to finish the Su-Katii quickly


    32. Should she be discovered, she decided to herself resolutely that she would make an attempt to throw the vial onto the crystal; in the past she had been constantly drilled by Zerch to plan every step of her actions and come up with backup plans as far as possible


    33. case, with holes drilled on the speaker side for the sound


    34. I was overtaken with a strange feeling, like someone drilled through my skull, to the core, and dug out my soul


    35. The God they drilled in my head did not add up


    36. I resisted the God they drilled in my head


    37. and drilled in my head everywhere


    38. But they had drilled their God into my skull


    39. Moses was drilled in the art of statecraft


    40. His brother always drilled in his head never to be caught slipping or with your pants down

    41. It shows cowardice and Terry made sure he drilled in his sisters' head that same thing his mother drilled in his: We Cottons ain't soft


    42. Every other member of staff had it drilled into them that when these alarms sounded they got out and double quick


    43. The tousle-headed youth stared about him eagerly and curiously, noting the rows of barracks along the walls, the stables, the tiny merchants' stalls, the towering blockhouse, and the other buildings, with the open square in the middle where the soldiers drilled, and where, now, fires danced and men off duty lounged


    44. I then drilled a sizeable hole and requested our teacher to hold the paper towel over the hole


    45. One of our mates went for a walk through the yard without us and within like 30 secs one of the other group drilled him with a couple of massive hits


    46. Apparently they were drilled through and hit by objects from the manager’s office


    47. With moves my brothers had drilled in to me on how to fight hard and dirty, I made sure I drew blood


    48. may have a hole drilled into its skull or have its skull pried


    49. The glass drones had determined that there was a shaft drilled straight through the center of the mountain to the caverns below


    50. That point was quickly drilled into a German Bf-109 by young Tom Allen, who sent it crashing in flames into the sea after firing only three short bursts












































    1. of the waxing moon are learning, drilling,


    2. He pauses once more, his eyes virtually drilling holes in the deck he is gazing at it so emphatically


    3. The news that night was not good and there would be a complete fire ban on the Sunday and that meant no outside drilling are welding or BBQ's and absolutely no open fires at all


    4. “How 'bout I drill the middle of the surface?” suggested Ky, “It’s safer than drilling near an edge


    5. At this point his vision became so distorted he couldn't make out what was happening to him, but the sound of drilling was unmistakable – and the stark realisation that he was in the presence of a sentient lifeform


    6. the cafeteria reverberated around and across the room, bouncing off the walls and slowly drilling its


    7. He needs to stop tinkering and allow some drilling, preferably in ANWR and the American gulf coast


    8. Leading them all was our RSM looking splendid with his medals and short drilling stick


    9. We fatherly assailed the Police Band after the funeral for they made the severe mistake of questioning our drilling capabilities which we saw as a mortal insult


    10. Our skills in driving fast and kicking the (you know what) out of criminals and terrorists grew at a rapid pace but the drilling suffered at the same rate

    11. when I’m drilling holes through the wall


    12. It’s my favorite camping tool, and you can make it yourself by gluing some parts of aluminum cans together and drilling some holes


    13. Popping shots, drilling the table clean


    14. A good part of their time over the next two weeks was spent drilling the two little girls and their mother in a series of English phrases and reminding the children that they must avoid speaking Polish whenever strangers, especially policemen or soldiers, were present


    15. ‘Why are they doing that?’ asked Russell, as the insects started drilling in yet another position


    16. Ft worth were not contaminated by nearby gas drilling , as the EPA has maintained and has instructed


    17. leases affected by the Department of Interior"s drilling moratorium for an additional twelve months


    18. Serendipitously it would seem, additional information came to his attention from other oil-well drilling test cores in the Gulf of Mexico further narrowing a beginning investigation


    19. The fear is that the environmentalists will use this as another reason to stop drilling for oil in Alaska


    20. refineries and drilling for oil but the Department of Energy has the responsibility of developing plans

    21. plants and oil refineries and curtailed oil drilling this department is partially responsible


    22. When the gulf oil spill occurred the Interior Department was involved in stopping the drilling so it is also involved


    23. And when you consider the lack of action in constructing power plants and oil drilling, it seems logical


    24. A bill was passed by the Republican Congress in 1995 to permit drilling for oil and gas but President


    25. Presidential executive orders issued by the President George Bush (41) exist to stop offshore drilling on


    26. However, that bill permitted drilling 100 miles off the coast or between 50 and 100 miles if


    27. Thus, drilling within 50 miles of the coast was prohibited and that is where the oil companies have explored


    28. A Bush plan for drilling was to begin in 2010 but Ken Salazar stopped that


    29. That effectively stops any drilling for another several years


    30. The Department of the Interior has placed a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf

    31. Drilling, mining, logging and such activates


    32. research drilling information and production


    33. production, producing well operations, drilling


    34. contaminated by nearby gas drilling , as the EPA has maintained and has instructed Range Resources to continue to operate the wells as they continue to fight the EPA in federal court to overturn their ruling


    35. The Environmental Protection Agency is the main problem in our not having nuclear power plants, oil refineries and drilling for oil but the Department of Energy has the responsibility of developing plans and objectives for energy production in our country


    36. Since we have stopped building nuclear power plants and oil refineries and curtailed oil drilling this department is partially responsible


    37. If so, and when you consider the lack of action in constructing power plants and oil drilling, it seems logical than the Department of Energy is not doing anything that helps us


    38. We should open up the barren wasteland of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and our own offshore waters to oil and natural gas drilling


    39. Presidential executive orders issued by the President George Bush (41) existed to stop offshore drilling on our Outer Continental Shelf until 2012


    40. A bill was passed by the Republican Congress in 1995 to permit drilling for oil and gas but President Clinton vetoed it

    41. We can not get a bill through the Senate that permits drilling for oil in Alaska


    42. In 2008 the Democratic Congress passed a bill permitting drilling for oil and claimed they had solved the problem


    43. However, that bill permitted drilling 100 miles off the coast or between 50 and 100 miles if adjacent states permitted


    44. President Obama revealed a plan to open more acreage to exploratory oil and gas drilling but the plan creates reduces more acreage than it adds


    45. Then there would have to be seismic surveys and federal air permits obtained before drilling could start


    46. Trent Franks (AZ-R), said, ― the ironic reality is that the administration‘s new policy actually closes more offshore drilling sites than it opens


    47. To add to the problem the moratorium issued due to the Gulf oil spill has also stopped drilling in Alaska


    48. Royal Dutch Shell was awaiting Interior Department approval to start drilling five offshore wells this year but the moratorium will move that into 2011 because of the winter weather


    49. The only real decisive measure taken by Obama was to issue a moratorium that stopped all drilling – everywhere - claiming that the action was taken after having reviewed a study from seven experts on oil drilling


    50. "The decision to impose a temporary moratorium on deep-water drilling was made by the secretary, following consultation with colleagues including the White House







































    1. There were seemingly endless drills on the forms of gestures and


    2. I actually came to look at those twist drills George put out last month


    3. The emptiness of it all drills down into Billy's marrow


    4. scared freshman (several of whom wouldn’t be back tomorrow) with bunting drills


    5. It was during those monotonous drills that Roman walked in


    6. Our drills continued, and then there was a walk-through of our bunt


    7. The many faces of Heron’s disinterest and displeasure would prevail until the lessons ended and he could look forward to joining his father and eldest sister in combat drills just outside the town walls


    8. The small collection of soldiers present for training gave her a few intrigued glances, but returned to their drills as she disappeared through the first door she found facing the courtyard


    9. Homer quickly learned that real fighting was nothing like his father’s drills


    10. He showed me drills and bits that made the precise holes needed in wood

    11. “In the drills, we were always told to go straight to the storm shelter and stay there


    12. Before the estimated nuclear strike, predictions for these complexes (this was only one of many hundreds being burrowed by automated drills throughout the world) ranged between twenty square kilometres to as much as fifty


    13. Use it as an aid to train your slave to perform slave positions and position drills


    14. Her oral drills on the rules of verb formation and grammar were a highly effective form of brainwashing


    15. Quarters: living space of the crew; assembling of all hands at designated stations for muster, drills and inspections


    16. Frank was very glad for all the drills he had had back in his time


    17. A vice president said, “Well, sir, we’re looking at new shapes and sizes for our drills


    18. The drills we did repeatedly together with Annah at the


    19. $ElNE WHAT BUSINESS YOU ARE IN n DRILLS OR HOLES


    20. There were always battle station drills, but in November of 1963 we had our first battle station announcement that was not a drill

    21. philosophies or running practice drills


    22. Drills are closely related to Mandrills and Baboons,


    23. Drills have a scent gland on their sternum which they


    24. Drills can live up to 30 years


    25. Drills in the wild may number as few as 4000 but probably no


    26. He used to play volleyball with her at the beach, practice drills and shots


    27. with set abilities, but through drills and practice mixed


    28. He couldn’t help but admire the men who sank the shaft using only hand drills and gunpowder


    29. Do the “fetching” drills with a list and with a recording


    30. in a bus or on a train, I doubt that you will do the wardrobe drills

    31. “The Chief will then take charge and carry out the drills he has practised with the squad, but this


    32. Those soldiers were busy at the time practicing their battle drills and musket loading


    33. endmills or twist drills)


    34. drills, changes of vectors while under way, reverse polarization procedures and


    35. arms and combat training interspersed with space and battle drills


    36. Rote drills, boredom, a constant authoritarian presence looking over his shoulder - all of it a carefully choreographed act to make him want to become the star of the arena


    37. Ministries were everywhere, but they were meaningless drills that covered up sin


    38. Monday morning the company drills intensified


    39. They wanted our drills razor sharp


    40. With that done, the RSM ran us through the drills we practiced to put on a show for the audience

    41. tia drills when a comrade handed him the paper


    42. Boat and fire drills were carried out on all the ships I served on


    43. RR&L said we’d need some special drills and some tools but he knew where to get them and we can rent them and this will take a week, two at the most


    44. difference between them in drills so that you can improve these


    45. In return he would supervise Paddy Cronin, Andre and the other boys in the use of his drills


    46. He would prepare the drills and then Paddy, Andre and other of the boys would drill downward into the stone


    47. He never did explain why you had to hold drills and electric sanders in the


    48. It helped him focus, whether during sword-training drills, working on his footwork, or any of the other mundane chores his uncle had insisted he perform as part of his training


    49. “Highness she is doing drills by the waterfall,” the Yogini answered, falling to


    50. The Kinnaras started neighing ensemble and more squads rallied to this call; far-flung ones breaking through with archaic mortars and drills































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    Synonyms for "drill"

    drill exercise practice practice session recitation mandrillus leucophaeus practise bore boring tool gimlet preparation repetition session military training machine for planting seeds pierce sink penetrate dig puncture rehearse discipline teach train coach indoctrinate

    "drill" definitions

    a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)


    similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored


    systematic training by multiple repetitions


    (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms


    make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool


    train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons


    learn by repetition


    teach by repetition


    undergo military training or do military exercises