Sentence examples for drills from high-quality English sources.

• Four such drills took place in 2013.

• Cheerleaders will be allowed to begin drills Thursday.

• I’m fine with drills, but not just the drills.

• For the United States and South Korea, these drills — mostly conducted on computer screens — are normal exercises.

• Earlier in the month Japan sent a submarine to conduct drills in the sea for the first time.

• Pneumatic tools can also be divided into two groups according to the type of tools: portable tools and rock drills.

• A majority of droppings out happened just before a series of timed drills, conducted in a deep-water pool, in full uniform.

• Russian Defense Minister Shoigu on Thursday ordered troops back to their permanent bases following massive drills in Crimea.

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• Just days before the inauguration, China’s military conducted large-scale drills on the mainland’s southeastern coast, near Taiwan.

• But I think the Kenyans have such natural strength in their bodies that perhaps they don't need drills as much as we in the west do.

• "We practice the same drills on replica aircraft carriers because sinking and destroying US warships has, is, and will be on our agenda."

• They met repeatedly over the summer for arms training and combat drills, the FBI said, and co-ordinated surveillance around the governor's vacation home.

• Piston drills were superseded by hammer drills run by compressed air, and their performance improved with better design and the availability of quality steel.

• His videos of quirky boxing drills are shared prolifically and their appeal to even non-boxing fans serves to underline how specific content can connect fighters with a new audience.

• Railway operators are now required to have safety drills for flammable shipments and to route such trains to avoid built-up areas where possible; where it is not, in America the companies have agreed a 40mph speed limit.

• It is unlikely that a generation raised on lockdown drills, with access to phone footage of gun rampages and a waning interest in hunting, will grow up parroting the National Rifle Association’s rhetoric as enthusiastically as today’s political leaders.

drills sentence examples

• Joint operations included "air defense exercises, tactical maneuvering drills, simulated long-range maritime strike scenarios, and coordinated air and surface exercises to maintain combat readiness and maritime superiority," the US Navy said in a statement.

• Some hospitals are performing drills for the huge surge of coronavirus patients they expect in the coming weeks — a presentation for the American Hospital Association estimated there would be 4.8 million hospitalizations associated with the novel coronavirus.

• “I suppose the obvious things that are changing in that are things like the longer durations, where they’re maybe having a water break, sitting and chatting to each other or having certain technical or tactical drills where you’re in close proximity, or coaches stopping and breaking down drills.

• The procedures include passive “lockdown drills,” in which students are locked inside their classrooms and told to hide from unnamed threats; “active shooter drills,” which name the threat; and ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate), a training procedure developed by a Texas law-enforcement officer in 2001 that offers “option-based, proactive, survival strategies.”