Sentence examples for a sort of drill from inspiring English sources

The city of Rome had a place called the Campus Martius ("Field of Mars"), which was a sort of drill ground for Roman soldiers.

A: Sort of.

Lake Vostok, two miles deep, was reached with a different sort of drill that risked the danger of contaminating the buried lake with drilling fluid.

Matt Pitzarella, a spokesman for Range Resources, a Texas-based natural gas producer, acknowledged that the gulf spill had increased public concern about any sort of drilling activity.

Tian: Can you sort of drill down and tell me a little about the DNA of the Reel Recovery Film Festival?

Several years ago, the gas companies arrived, part of a sort of rush in Arkansas to drill for gas in a geological formation called the Fayetteville shale.

The visual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, in keeping with Stockhausen's request that "Oktophonie" be experienced as it might be in outer space, turned the Drill Hall into a sort of lunar landscape.

The IMG Academy hosts a sort of football cleat camp where international prospects are drilled in the basics of the game.

For deeper drilling, the proposal is a sort of nuclear spinning saw blade, which sounds insane but actually isn't.

Oil drilling, for example, can simply slow down, a sort of underground stockpiling.

In a sort of stand-up comedy video the artist Marianne Vitale spits out abusive commands like a psychotic drill sergeant.