Sentence examples for the boreholes from inspiring English sources
noun
A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
Are the boreholes and pumps working well?
On Thursday, they received 33 tiny bibles through the boreholes.
Water is pumped from the boreholes and used to heat apartments and provide hot water.
All the medications traveled down through the plastic tubes sent through the boreholes.
Water is then pumped down one of the boreholes and rises, heated, up the other.
Cloth bags of the chlorate were soaked in the nitrobenzene and loaded directly from the soaking tank into the boreholes.
The boreholes have become the miners' lifeline through which they are receiving medicine, clean clothes and electronic devices.
All day and night, residents line up at the boreholes to pay five cents and fill their plastic buckets with contaminated water, which some of them drink anyway.
Companies are not expected to monitor, measure or analyse the polluted liquids that come back up the boreholes and must be disposed of elsewhere.
21 of the boreholes have transmissivity values.
