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
• After emerging, larvae drill into the plant stems and spend the next four to six weeks chewing away at the interior of the stems and inside plant crowns.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2024
• Carpenter bees are known to drill into wooden structures that may exist around your home, such as a wood deck or the siding of your house.
  — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 21 July 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
• Worse still, woodpeckers drill into the wood, hoping to feed on carpenter bees and their larvae.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2024
• Among the causes of concerns was a three-story aluminum judging tower that would be erected by drilling into a reef.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
• 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
• Four years later—after much crowdfunding, letter writing, and drilling into the stone—the open-to-anyone turf court was finished.
  — Nick Pachelli, Vogue, 3 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024