Sentence examples for drilling out from inspiring English sources

Corals, like tree rings, preserve records of the past; by drilling out cores, they hope to document past bleaching events and rainfall patterns going back some 250 years.

There's only a brief glimpse of a penguin this time around; here Jacquet returns to the Antarctic to tell the life story of climatologist Claude Lorius, now in his 80s, who has spent his life drilling out ice cores at enormous depth, and whose resulting analysis proved key in linking climate change and "greenhouse" gases.

Each rivet hole involves pilot drilling, de-burring, pinning, drilling out to full diameter, de-burring again, pinning again, counter sinking and de-burring a final time.

Extracting the gas involves a complex sequence of processes including drilling down and then sideways along a shale bed, cracking the rock with hydraulic pressure or explosions (fracking), placing plugs in the shaft and then "drilling out" these plugs.

"It is the most effective way to obtain rapid, clean access to Lake Ellsworth". The next two days will be spent drilling out a 'chamber' the size of a caravan below the surface of the ice-sheet so that a reservoir of sterilised water is ready to prevent any lake water rising up into the borehole.

And it blows the locks off the doors to keep offshore drilling out for good.

Shiny aluminum pedals, drilled out like a race car's for lightness, gleam in the footwell.

These will be able to work out the mineral composition of samples drilled out by a rock-corer.

Engraving of the details was carried out using small steel tools (scorpers), or designs were drilled out using corundum dust.

The work involves traversing the ruggedly incised landscape to drill out samples of rock layers associated with fossil finds.

windstorms to drill out a core of ice they hope will be up to 2 million years old.