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?"

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

  • It was the rare multiplex that didn't have these movies playing on multiple screens, and these movies were supported with multimedia marketing campaigns that drilled themselves into your head.

  • 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."

  • 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."


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