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Drill in sentence

185 examples of Drill in a sentence

That power drill will be used around 12 to 13 minutes in its entire lifetime.
Because what you need is the hole, not the drill.
So why don't you rent the drill, or, even better, rent out your own drill to other people and make some money from it?
They're glorified drill and practice.
Now on the one hand, exhorting us to "drill, baby, drill," because God put those resources into the ground in order for us to exploit them, and on the other, glorying in the wilderness of Alaska's untouched beauty on her hit reality TV show.
You can't just drill a hole and pump it out.
Then you can drill down and understand how actually we put your level in context, and we use color to illustrate exactly where your value falls.
But he's trying to power it, or motorize it, with a drill.
It's a heartwarming story, but if you drill a little bit deeper, you've got to sort of wonder about what exactly was going on there.
My favorite example is a drill.
Who here owns a drill, a home power drill?
The average home power drill is used somewhere between six and 20 minutes in its entire lifetime, depending on who you ask.
And so what we do is we buy these drills that have a potential capacity of thousands of hours of drill time, use them once or twice to put a hole in the wall and let them sit.
And the plastics, we get from oil, which we go to more remote locations and drill ever deeper wells to extract.
I used everything short of a drill to get oxytocin into my own brain.
If you drill water to make coke near a village farm, that's not illegal, but yes, it costs the community.
And here, massive amounts of water are superheated and pumped through the ground, through these vasts networks of pipelines, seismic lines, drill paths, compressor stations.
So we devised a sort of scatter-and-hide drill.
And you know, if we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out.
And the director listed the orphanage's most urgent needs as an industrial size washing machine and dryer, four vacuum cleaners, two computers, a video projector, a copy machine, winter shoes and a dentist's drill.
And I'll cut some wood and drill some holes and watch the water, and maybe I'll have to walk around and look for washers.
I lined up the kids, I held up a sign so they could follow me through the hall, just like a fire drill.
I remember the fearful faces of my students when we knew it wasn't a drill.
Electric saw, power drill, totally disgusting unless you're David Bolinsky, in which case it's all truth and beauty.
Okay, I hear you were laughing nervously because you too could hear that the drill was a little bit sharp, the intonation was a little questionable.
This had become our overdose drill because at the time, it was all we could do.
In the old days they used to take a lump of Pentelic marble and drill from the surface in order to identify the skin, the appearance, what Aristotle defined as the distinction between substance and appearance, the thing that makes things visible, but here we're working from the other side.
And then we introduce them to somebody who they come to hate immediately, the drill sergeant.
And the drill sergeant starts screaming at them, and telling them to do all kinds of awful things.
And you know what, they come to admire the drill sergeant and they never forget the drill sergeant.
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