Sentence examples for was drilled through from inspiring English sources

"If the head was cut off, it was Shia; if the head was drilled through, it was Sunni".

The discovery well was drilled through evaporites of Permian age (about 251 million to 299 million years old) into a thick basal Permian sandstone that was gas-productive.

A Steve Harmison full-toss was drilled through the covers by Lee and straight to Jones, the only man out in the deep.

Six feet (two metres) in diameter and more than 3,000 ft in length, it was drilled through the rock by teams of slaves using hammers and chisels.

In the 1920s a tunnel was drilled through the treacherous Stevens Pass, "perhaps the last untamed section of the American railway system," Mr. Krist writes, rendering Wellington obsolete.

These stones were up to 13 feet (4 metres) in diameter; a hole was drilled through the middle of each disk so that two men could transport it on a pole.

(In 1966 holes had been drilled through the framework to remove panels for cleaning).

The screws are drilled through the carpet, into the floor and down into the joist.

When finished, 3,000km of tunnels and canals will have been drilled through mountains, across plains and under rivers.

Two tunnels, each 14 inches in diameter, are drilled through the sediment under the ship by remote control.

In most cases, he said, a number of holes are drilled through the slab that has settled.