Sentence examples for drilled ground from inspiring English sources

Repeatedly, Hingis drilled ground strokes to the center of the court, trying to jam Williams and stunt her wicked windup.

The match wasn't over — Wawrinka had plenty of fight left — but Hewitt drilled ground strokes from both sides and forced Wawrinka into errors while mixing his serve beautifully.

Having a hardness like that of steel or feldspar, jade cannot be carved or cut with metal tools but has to be laboriously drilled, ground, or sawed with an abrasive paste and rotational or repetitive-motion machinery, usually after being reduced to the form of blocks or thin slabs.

But it was the drill ground and the battlefield that stirred his blood.

In Rome, especially, her cult was very popular, particularly among soldiers, by whom she was worshipped as patroness of the drill ground (Nemesis Campestris).

It's a drill ground on which Russia can flex its muscles, and more a matter of world politics than economics".

To facilitate the modeling and simulation of lunar drilling, ground verification experiments for drilling and coring should be performed using lunar regolith simulant.

My new marching orders made it clear where the recruit with my name was to undergo basic training: on a drill ground of the Waffen S.S., as a panzer gunner, somewhere far off in the Bohemian Woods.

Near the city centre is Military Park, used as a drill ground in colonial times and now the site of a bronze group of figures, The Wars of America, by Gutzon Borglum.

The previous week the newspaper had carried reports of how George Beardsworth and Charles Dukes [both subsequently prominent trade union leaders] had been forcibly taken to the drilling ground and kicked, punched, knocked down and thrown over railings until they lay exhausted, bruised and bleeding.

Then the Waffen SS makes its first appearance, not as a principal, in the nominative, but in the genitive, "a drill ground of the Waffen SS", just as "I" does not appear as "I" but as "the recruit with my name" (a habitual and awful periphrastic tic throughout the book).