drill into

phrasal verb

drilled into; drilling into; drills into

: to force (something) to be learned very well by (someone) by repeating it again and again

Our teacher drilled the lesson into our heads.

Examples of drill into in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the 1998 hit Armageddon, which Bruckheimer produced, NASA enlists a group of oil drillers to fly into space, land on a massive asteroid that’s hurtling towards Earth, drill into the rock and insert a nuclear bomb to destroy it. —Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024

Dozens of boreholes were drilled into the ground at the site, once a pre-Hispanic city-state, revealing layers of artifacts from various societies. —Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024

Police say a man and a woman showed up on Dec. 21, attempted to drill into the machine, but were unsuccessful. —Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024

This was just as Marina’s grandmother had drilled into her in the salty blue haze of those summers at sea in the 1990s. —Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024

Others spotlighted how the 46-year-old governor overcame sharp GOP attacks by the Cameron campaign and outside groups that drilled into culture war issues and larger economic anxiety by focusing on kitchen table subjects, such as healthcare. —Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2024

Don't be a monster and try to drill into a functioning Game Boy cartridge. —Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2023

First on Lynch and Shahan’s list should be drilling into the Chiefs’ successes on several late-game plays involving a blitz. —Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024

Perseverance has been drilling into the crater’s surface to collect samples that could contain ancient signs of life, with the intent of returning the samples to Earth in 2033. —Robert Patalano, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024