Example sentences for: drilled

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • Quang Phuc Dong's English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject looks at the oft-questioned basis of fuck you!, whilst Munç Wang's Copulative Sentences in English: A Germanic Language Spoken in Northern Delaware studies the grammaticality (in the author's idiolect) of such sentences as Micky fucked Michelle's cadaver in the ass (grammatical), Bret fucked the mannikin through the hole he drilled in its throat (of questionable grammaticality), and Fred fucked the log through a hole that squirrels had made (ungrammatical).


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