How to Use borehole in a Sentence

borehole

noun

• The rich are digging boreholes — private wells to reach water in the aquifer.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2018
• For the wealthy, that means hiring companies to dig boreholes and wells.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
• Take a photo of the infected tree, as well as a closeup shot of a borehole near a fungal stain.
  — Guest, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2015
• In older times people used the first borehole as fridge to store consequent cores in there.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2021
• Ground source heat pumps require space to either bury a pipe in a loop under a garden or dig a deep borehole.
  — Laura Smith-Spark, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
• Other equipment would pressurize the gas and send it down a borehole.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
• The Russian team plans to retrieve samples of frozen water from the borehole in early 2013 and look for such microbes.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2013
• Dozens of deep boreholes and springs have already been exhausted.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2020
• Then part of the system that allowed the drill to reenter a borehole multiple times broke into pieces.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• To determine whether this was so, he and a team of colleagues drilled, in 2012, five small boreholes around Mineral Beach.
  — The Economist, 13 Dec. 2017
• One is a borehole into the San Andreas Fault to understand fault structure.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
• In an effort to increase the amount of salt water in the wetlands, boreholes were drilled to access subterranean salt water and bring it to the surface.
  — Bianca Nogrady, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• With the help of donors, Nkuraiya gathers water in a borehole, a small-diameter well.
  — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2020
• Inside the drilling tent at Skytrain Ice Rise, scientists preparing the drill for its next drop into the borehole.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• Dozens of hippos crowded the water of the nearest borehole, packed so densely their backs looked like cobblestones.
  — Maggie Shipstead, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2020
• Water would be pumped through the borehole into the hot rock and then return to the surface at a temperature of more than 600 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — NBC News, 6 Sep. 2017
• Nontoxic bentonite clay is used as a lubricant to cool the drill bit and to transport bits of excavated rock back through the borehole to the surface.
  — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 8 July 2017
• Typically, this is handled by filling the upper area of the borehole with cement plugs.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
• Perrine has begun raising funds to drill a borehole - a deep, narrow shaft bored into the ground to reach a water supply - and to install a pump and a 5,000-liter storage tank.
  — 'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017
• Farawo said the water crisis at the park was at a dire stage, and authorities have had to dig boreholes deeper to provide care for the animals.
  — Bukola Adebayo and Columbus S. Mavhunga, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
• Scientists drilled a borehole into the ice with hot water, and lowered Icefin through to take video and other measurements along the grounding line.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The project’s contract dictated that after the project was completed, the borehole would have been permanently sealed and the land restored.
  — James Nord, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
• This borehole would have been about 10 times deeper than a mined repository, but such depths are not unusual for oil and gas boreholes.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
• Scientists there were able to begin analyzing the lake water as soon as a sample was lifted out of the borehole.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
• The drilling makes an almighty muddy mess, but when all is said and done, the more than 2,000 boreholes planned for the campus will be undetectable, despite performing an impressive sleight of hand.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• People feared that kerosene in the borehole would spill into the pristine lake when it was finally penetrated.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2013
• The camp that drilled a borehole for scientific research in 2018 required thousands of gallons of diesel fuel.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
• The city government has been drilling extra boreholes and sending water tankers to parched neighbourhoods.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• Water shortages used to be common, but are increasingly rare thanks to new boreholes.
  — Julian Hattem, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
• Additionally, boreholes have been installed in each school, ensuring a consistent supply of clean water.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024