Sentence examples for a former drill from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wyatt has long been a Texas oil-field legend, a former drill bit salesman who was born in Beaumont and started working as a crop duster after getting his pilot's license at age 16.

The dancers were trained to march by Sharon Morrison, a former drill sergeant and now a social worker at the post-traumatic stress clinic in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who helped recruit the veterans for Ms. Rogoff's project.

That is a whole other story, complete with a former drill sergeant from the Jamaican Army, Michael Galloway, 35, who has been on the job a mere three weeks but has taken it upon himself to tell each of the men how to stand and direct traffic.

I couldn't help but wonder whether she was a former drill instructor.

He is joined by Naomi Hunter, who gives medical advice; Nastasha Romanenko, who provides item and weapon tips; Master Miller, a former drill instructor and survival coach; and Mei Ling, who invented the soliton radar system used in the mission and is also in charge of mission data; the player can call her to save the game.

Mr. Wyatt, 81, is one of the last legendary Texas oilmen, a former drill-bit salesman who put together several ambitious international energy ventures.

His father, an Air Force master sergeant (and former drill instructor), moved the family to bases in California, back to Texas and then Virginia.

Back in street clothes on the club floor my former drill sergeants handed me a glass of Champagne to toast the end of training.

Mr. McGreevey then broke the news to his mother and his father, a former Marine drill instructor.

They set up a training school, found premises (which they called "the Place") at a former army drill hall near Euston station, London, and in 1969 launched the new London Contemporary Dance Group – at the Adeline Genée theatre in East Grinstead.

From the front of the room, the chief arbiter, a former Army drill sergeant, shouted, "Go!" A judge sitting opposite me clicked her stopwatch, and I began peeling through the pack as fast as I could, flicking three cards at a time off the top of the deck and into my right hand.