On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured. Moses wasn’t overly drilled, just told he would be playing right wing-back, that Conte had seen enough to know.
He drilled down the court and made a three-pointer.
He drilled the ball to his teammate.
2006, Joe Coon, The Perfect Game:
He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
2007, Craig Cowell, Muddy Sunday:
Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[2], archived from the original on 4 February 2026:
Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.
(baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
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A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.
The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.
An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
At today's practice, the football team performed a variety of goalkeeping drills.
Though the young women of Chicago’s drill scene can be as rowdy as their male counterparts, they’re also more diverse in subject matter and point to a possible way forward.
New York City mayor Eric Adams held a summit with a group of drill rappers on Tuesday night and clarified he doesn’t actually want to ban their music, days after he appeared to blame the music scene for the recent shooting deaths of two young New York rappers and suggested drill videos be pulled from the internet.
2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
Between ticky off-kilter rhythms and otherworldly digital voice processing, the experimental hip-hop genres trap and drill have delivered radical hymns from alien planets.
An agriculturalimplement for making holes for sowingseed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
drill (third-person singular simple presentdrills, present participledrilling, simple past and past participledrilled)
(transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
waters drilled through a sandy stratum
1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610.[…], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC:
Now it is a great square profunditie ; greene , and uneven at the bottome : into which a barren spring doch drill from betweene the stones of the North - ward wall
1711 June 12, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 89; republished in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842, page 142:
He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another.
Source unknown. Probably of African origin; compare mandrill. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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