Sentence examples for become a drill from inspiring English sources

"But I was encouraged to become a drill sergeant, which I did," she said, "and that experience certainly helped when I taught military drill at the State Police Academy".

Elsewhere, gas wells are on "a few percent" of city land, he said, but because the Barnett Shale is believed to be rich with gas throughout, virtually all of Fort Worth has become a drill site.

Known as the Barnett Shale, the rock slab has proven rich in natural gas, and the Dallas/Fort Worth region has become a drilling hotbed for a menagerie of energy companies.

This control doesn't seem to be applicable to whether or not you would like your backyard to become a drilling ground, but let's not get into the fine print.

During national service in the RAF, he smoked roll-ups and became a drill instructor, proud of his glassy boots and banshee howl on the parade ground.

Once a firm but warm father figure, Mr. Muhammad increasingly became a drill sergeant, coaching Mr. Malvo not to "let himself have feelings" and to act like a "soldier on a mission," Dr. Cornell said.

On 29 October 1907 Calliope became a drill ship at Newcastle upon Tyne for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Tyne Division, and served there for over four decades.

Trained in his home country and the United Kingdom, he became a drilling instructor and superintendent, and a senior advisor on complex water-supply projects operated by the government and private companies across Ethiopia.

When he joined the army in the second world war (and rose to become a colonel) a drill instructor told him that he should make the army his career because "he was too stupid to earn a living anywhere else".

"The area would become a gas drilling area and not an area of tourism".

In a sequence that became a familiar drill, Mrs. Burnham would be awakened by a midnight call from the sheriff's office, get out of bed, slip her black judicial robe over her nightgown and be ready, gavel in hand, when the latest felony suspect was brought in for arraignment.