Sentence examples for silent drill from inspiring English sources

There are no bells, whistles or dancing rabbits, just the satisfaction of knowing that you've defeated a silent drill sergeant.

Shot on location mostly at Parris Island, S.C., the corps's East Coast training station, the spot shows real Marines doing real basic training exercises, although actually the Marines shown are members of the elite Silent Drill Platoon, not new recruits.

Hanif takes the crash of his Hercules - which went down in 1988, taking the US ambassador with it - as the hook on which to hang a vivid twin narrative centred on Zia and Ali Shigri, an air force cadet whose rifle-flinging "silent drill" gives him a key role in the country's Independence Day parade.

On Saturday, the Marine Corps will unveil its newest advertising campaign, and unlike past campaigns featuring the Marines' stately Silent Drill Platoon in dress uniform, the new spot highlights in high-definition detail the grit, sweat and tears of boot camp.

With its focus on men doing rigorous basic training exercises, the new spot has a more testosterone-fueled quality than last year's campaign, which featured the precise rifle-handling exhibition of the Silent Drill Platoon at iconic American locales, from Times Square to the Hoover Dam.

The event, to be held at the New York Hilton, begins with cocktails at 6 30, followed by a performance of the Marine Corps Drum and Bugle Corps and the Silent Drill Team at 8. Dinner at 8 30 will be followed by dancing.

In dentistry, in America they do have silent drills, you don't hear the drill at all and why can't we have that sort of things in National Health?

This, from the party of the now-silent cries of "drill, baby, drill".

The miners fought despair, Mr. Mayhugh said, when the drill fell silent for 18 hours because of a snapped shaft just as the water closed in once more.

The new drill is silent, steady, and dust-free, and the bits almost never wear out.

Once great naval town now full of shopping centres; once busy pubs now silent – you know the drill.