Sentence examples for hole a well from inspiring English sources

An industry rule of thumb puts the cost of drilling a deepwater "dry hole"—a well that does not strike oil at around $100m; BP says it can be as high as $200m.With the stakes so high and the margin for error so small, "you need to know before you drill," says Stuart Strife, Anadarko's head of exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.

The surviving-the-psycho metaphor may not be a particularly heartwarming one, but as the somewhat arcane title of Ms. Gionfriddo's play suggests (it's a song lyric from the rock band Hole), a well-lived life today still means negotiating a fair amount of pain and frustration in search of that elusive goal, happiness.

Then they had a collar to put round your neck with two horns... so that you could not lie down on your back or belly.... Sometimes they dug a hole like a well with a door on top [and kept you] in it two or three weeks or a month.

A "tight hole" is a well where no information is disclosed and all contractors are required to stay mum in order to be allowed to work on that well.

Marine scientists measure its abundance by dragging a sledge equipped with video cameras along the seabed and counting the number of holes (a well-maintained burrow being the sign of a happy prawn).

Returns 35 kuna (about £4) jesuisbenrob Cafe Buza, Dubrovnik A well-hidden hole in the city walls leads to this stunningly located bar on the rocks.

This blew a hole in a well-learned dogma: that changes in inflation follow changes in policy, with long and variable lags.

In February 1995, Hole performed a well-reviewed acoustic set on MTV Unplugged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and continued to tour late into the year, concluding their world tour with an appearance at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, in which they performed "Violet," and were nominated for Best Music Video for "Doll Parts".

Here, core structures for potential use in sandwich panels were prepared by drilling holes in a well-defined pattern through either a high quality wax block or a machined salt slab.

"They've been in a hole for well over a year now, and they haven't put together a credible plan to put the state on a firm footing".

"So, if you say Norway is a better place to live, and Haiti is kind of a hole, well, anyone who's been to those countries or has lived in them would agree," Carlson said.