noun
drilling
the cutting of holes or wells into hard material with a rotating tool
In a sentence
Six example sentences with drilling, each labelled with its topic.
Offshore drilling stopped for two seasons once the price per barrel fell below what each new well cost to sink.
Economics
Modern lasers have replaced some drilling in dentistry, removing decay without the vibration patients remember from childhood visits.
Medicine
Anchoring the balcony meant drilling forty holes through solid granite, which took longer than pouring the slab above it.
Architecture
Ice core drilling in Antarctica reached a depth of three kilometers, recovering air bubbles trapped eight hundred thousand years ago.
Science
Opponents of drilling in the refuge point out that caribou calve on the very plain where the wells would go.
Environment
The senate debate over offshore drilling split the coastal delegation, with fishing districts voting against their own party.
Politics
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