Sentence examples for drilled into it from inspiring English sources

Racketeering is the norm: one entrepreneur built his house on top of a buried oil pipeline, drilled into it and siphoned off quantities of fuel.

Mr. Kelly's piece is a diptych of diamond-shaped canvases — one black, one white — and Mr. Friedman's is a wooden chair with so many holes drilled into it that it seems to be dissolving in space.

Detectives say the thieves must have identified the cellar they wanted to access under the apartment building and then drilled into it from the catacombs, where the walls are mostly limestone.

After 500 million years or so of unassailed integrity, the rock has had holes drilled into it, holes where water can freeze on cold desert nights, and bust the sandstone apart.

Adding the wick is trickier, because you have to thread it through a piece of metal, drop it into the mould and then keep it upright by gumming it to what basically amounts to a lollystick with a hole drilled into it.

It's a $3,000 piece of aluminum with wells drilled into it.

Officials hastened to remind the public that Macondo won't be incontrovertibly dead until a relief well drills into it near its base and plugs it with cement.

Starting this month, researchers will drill into it to discover the rift's past and future.

"When you start drilling into it, it seems as though we'll be ahead," Mr. Campbell said.

A locksmith was called to drill into it, and when it was opened, the medals were indeed missing.

Researchers have since explored the crater more thoroughly, drilling into it to study how life died out and then rebounded.