Example sentences for: drilled

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

  • One by one the Dems file past, and one by one they are drilled with the same question by the 100-mouthed monster: "Was there any discussion of the president's, ah, legal troubles?"

  • When it was revealed a while back that Franklin Roosevelt had installed listening devices in the Oval Office, a workman from those days told reporters how he'd drilled the necessary holes in the floor under FDR's desk, adding, in a phrase that was reported without comment, that those holes were "probably still there."

  • 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).

  • 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).


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