How to Use drill into in a Sentence

drill into

phrasal verb

• The braces had pins that were drilled into her leg bones and had to be tightened daily.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2023
• This is a rule and a warning that life has drilled into girls from age 13, if not sooner.
  — Iva Dixit, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• For a more secure hold, drill into a stud and use a screw long enough to fasten into it for your hook.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• The need to be productive has been drilled into us throughout our lives.
  — WSJ, 6 Apr. 2023
• They were plagued by fleas and pilfered wine from the casks, as evidenced by discreet holes drilled into the stores.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• The large steel platforms will have to be removed, and every hole drilled into the sandy floor for pillars that hold the platform will have to be filled.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2013
• This was just as Marina’s grandmother had drilled into her in the salty blue haze of those summers at sea in the 1990s.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
• Samples of mantle rock were recovered from a more than 4,100-foot-deep hole drilled into the seabed of the North Atlantic.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• For the new mission, scientists drilled into the Atlantis Massif, a mountain at the bottom of the seafloor.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2023
• Don't be a monster and try to drill into a functioning Game Boy cartridge.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2023
• Jeff keeps drilling into our heads how these are all superfans who have been waiting all their lives to play this game.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
• The package comes with three screws that must be drilled into a wall in order to attach the bracket, which the floodlight then fits onto.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2023
• Using a slightly smaller drill bit than the nail, drill into the wall at a downward angle so the nail can function as a hook.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• After the excavations, the researchers used 3D scanners to study the surface of the bones and drilled into them to peek inside.
  — Maddie Burakoff, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
• It’s drilled into our brains that the average diet should be around 2,000 calories per day.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• There was no silence, only the shrieking of machines drilling into stone.
  — Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• Wonder allow the plumber to capture enemies in bubbles and drill into the ground.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Even her lunch break was an interview — an hour with The New York Times on a hotel patio, where the sun drilled into her pores and her takeout box of sushi.
  — Jessica Testa, New York Times, 8 May 2024
• Engineers would drill into the reservoir, and water would flow through a pipeline on the seafloor to a processing plant onshore.
  — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• The caverns are created by a process called solution mining, in which a well is drilled into the salt and high-pressure water is pumped down.
  — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• First on Lynch and Shahan’s list should be drilling into the Chiefs’ successes on several late-game plays involving a blitz.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
• Authorities also may be able to extract DNA from drilling into thigh bones, Baden said.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Technically speaking, though, the team did not drill into the Earth’s mantle, nor was its hole nearly as deep as SG-3 or the target depth for the prospective hole in China.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
• Police say a man and a woman showed up on Dec. 21, attempted to drill into the machine, but were unsuccessful.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
• When repaired with Tommy John surgery, the surgeon removes a healthy tendon from another part of the patient’s body and threads it through holes drilled into the bones on either side of the elbow.
  — Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024
• The developer added that holes had to be drilled into desks so that the iPads could be chained to furniture with bike cables, and were presented in casing so that only the screens were available.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• Perseverance has been drilling into the crater’s surface to collect samples that could contain ancient signs of life, with the intent of returning the samples to Earth in 2033.
  — Robert Patalano, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• The bit is capable of withstanding the high impact and wear created by drilling into concrete and masonry.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• Dozens of boreholes were drilled into the ground at the site, once a pre-Hispanic city-state, revealing layers of artifacts from various societies.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• Within 48 hours of touching down, the lander will drill into the surface and scoop up samples with a robotic arm before preparing for a trip back to Earth, the Associated Press reported.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024