Example sentences for: drilled

How can you use “drilled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The first oil well in the United States was drilled in 1859, by Edwin L. Drake, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, a town named for Jonathan Titus, who settled it in 1796 (and wanted to call it Edinburgh).

  • The first message to be drilled into boys' heads is: We believe you're genetically programmed to rape.

  • ' These pieces are called chocks (small pebbles were originally used for this purpose) or nuts (the earliest metal chocks being nuts with the screwthreads drilled out).

  • It requires that your home get wired-- another ugly box in your living room, holes drilled in walls--and that you constantly push buttons.

  • Claiming that "we are products not just of evolution, but also of what we imagine ourselves to be," Culturebox decries the classroom teaching of the evolutionary roots of rape (even as a prelude to explaining the hows and whys of resisting those roots) on the grounds that "[t]he first message to be drilled into boys' heads [would be]: We believe you're genetically programmed to rape."


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