"drilling away" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It means to continuously work hard or persistently in order to achieve a goal or complete a task. Example: Despite the hot weather, the construction workers kept drilling away at the concrete to lay the foundation for the new building.
It can be counterproductive to spend too much time drilling away".
This assures candidates that you are not drilling away at a response because it wasn't a good one".
"When you drive out west to Parramatta and Penrith … you can hear the machines drilling away – it is happening".
Around midnight on Thursday, the uptown tracks for the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 lines at the Union Square station were crowded with clusters of workers scraping, hammering and drilling away.
We're still relentlessly hacking, clawing and drilling away at whatever we can extract from the planet, more driven Ahab than curious Ishmael, but with infinitely more technological sophistication and impact.
Contending that an oil spill could cause lasting damage to the state's popular white sand beaches, the entire Florida delegation voted to keep drilling away from the coast, with the exception of Representative John Mica, a Republican.
A sidetrack is a secondary wellbore drilled away from the original hole.
Hewitt drilled away at the Federer backhand with a relentless insistence, hoping the cracks would show.
Meanwhile the Home Office drills away from below at the structure of local government and policing, looking forward to the time when electors can boot out police chiefs.
"You've got the airport and the mall right across the street," said the Quinta Mazatlan manager, Colleen Hook, as a golden-fronted woodpecker drilled away on a palm trunk over our heads.
Who among us hasn't had this thought, as a dentist industriously and cheerfully chisels and scrapes and drills away at your teeth: surely there is a better way?
