How to Use drill down in a Sentence

drill down

verb

• That led them to drill down on soil in their filmmaking.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
• Now drill down further and look at what happened in those games.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
• Lucy Smith looks set to drill down on the event at a MipTV presentation.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• Bassist Michael Shuman kicked the air as the trio of guitarists drilled down on the riff into a tumbling wall of sound.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
• Like Amal said, people are just drilling down sometimes.
  — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
• Exactly Four Times' Kimmel does have his pregame drill down.
  — Elizabeth Leonard, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
• The moments where the play digs into these questions are its best, drilling down with humor and heart on topics with no easy answers.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024
• The ability to drill down to the molecular level of a cancer cell is proving promising for even the rarest of cancers.
  — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
• Scientists would need to find a way to drill down deep enough into the planet’s crust to confirm the potential of life and the presence of water.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2024
• There’s so much creative potential in writers returning to the subjects of their books to drill down or build on their themes.
  — Tajja Isen, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, despite his last-minute rehearsals, Kimmel does have his pregame drill down.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
• The independent scrutiny by the state was expected to further drill down on the mistakes made along the way.
  — Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The task force will drill down on what’s being done in classrooms and by school district leaders to improve proficiency and growth.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
• What came back is a picture of a fiercely competitive technocrat who’s not afraid to bruise egos and drill down to the smallest details to get things done.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 July 2024
• But to drill down on which roles are most vulnerable to being displaced, researchers broke out jobs by how difficult the tasks are.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• For them, the first to-do item is to drill down and detail what is owed, the interest rate associated with each loan, the monthly payment amount, and when the first payment is due.
  — Jennifer Morris, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
• Hurley didn’t exactly drill down on the pick, which was Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht.
  — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
• But after drilling down on some fundamentals with Sharks goalie coach Thomas Speer, Cooley has looked like a different goalie.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Experiment quickly with a minimum viable product to drill down on the initial sweet spot niche in the market.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• If possible, start with a brand, such as Tory Burch, then drill down by category (women > shoes > flats) and even further by size, color and/or price.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• Most are inclined to pick a sport early and devote themselves to it entirely, playing in travel leagues, participating in clinics, drilling down the specifics of the game they are bound to.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2024
• Some researchers say drug companies should make more of their data available to the public so that researchers can drill down to look for effects on eating disorders.
  — Liz Szabo, NBC News, 31 July 2024
• Hundreds of rescuers were racing to drill down through several hundred feet of rock to where the miners are believed to be located, Orlov said, according to Reuters.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2024
• In addition, on Instagram Grimes said sorry/not sorry for changing the song’s alluring chorus and drilling down on a lyric she was entranced by.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2024
• In addition to the location upgrades, the brand is also drilling down on its Whopper campaign, but with a slightly different focus.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
• The website is an interactive map that drills down to exact neighborhoods and divides the information up based on poverty rates and access to child care.
  — Sarah Cottrell, Parents, 7 Nov. 2023
• By the by, my least favorite thing about the entire finale is the fact that editors didn’t drill down on lots of hilarious footage of Charlie doing an even worse job of idol hunting than Venus after Venus had already found her idol.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 May 2024
• But the problem was drilling down further, definitively drawing a boundary around the bitcoin hoard of any single person or organization.
  — Andy Greenberg, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
• Tracking information gained through its global e-commerce site launched last October, the company drilled down on the data to research what countries and regions are driving demand.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 3 July 2024
• The evidence of lots of structure across the Gypsy groups points to endogamy drilling down to a lower level of organization than just the ethnic group, which would be consistent with tendencies within South Asian culture more broadly.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2010

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024