Sentence examples for involved drilling from inspiring English sources

The sham surgery involved drilling the holes but not injecting needles into the brain.

Kittles's latest knee operation was a procedure that involved drilling small holes in the bone to create microfractures.

The fetal cell surgery involved drilling four small holes in the patient's forehead and then inserting long needles through the holes into the brain and injecting fetal cells.

The facade could not be altered, and developers were not allowed to add a roof terrace because it would have involved drilling into the roof, Mr. Hinder said.

But tapping it wasn't economically viable until the late 1990s, when a Texas wildcatter named George Mitchell hit on a novel extraction method that involved drilling wells sideways from the initial borehole, then blasting them full of water, chemicals, and sand to break up the shale a variation of a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Addressing claims about water contamination and pollution, he said that fracking involved "drilling more than a mile beyond any aquifer that you would be using to generate drinking water".

Mapping an aquifer involves drilling test wells and measuring the water table over distance and time.

The operation normally involves drilling a hole through the skull to remove the clot.

"Cuadrilla's exploration work at Balcombe involves drilling a conventional oil well.

This involves drilling a well down and then horizontally underground for up to 12km.

Shale gas exploration typically involves drilling down vertically and out horizontally, often for more than a mile.