How to Use borehole in a Sentence

borehole

noun
  • So the first project is to subsidize a borehole right by the school.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • Dozens of deep boreholes and springs have already been exhausted.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The team members used a dual rotary drill rig to create the boreholes.
    — Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2026
  • In older times people used the first borehole as fridge to store consequent cores in there.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Other equipment would pressurize the gas and send it down a borehole.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 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
  • 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
  • Today, geothermal boreholes are drilled with oversized rigs designed for oil and gas projects.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The metal casing that the drillers left behind still sticks up out of the snow, even though the borehole beneath it has collapsed.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Then part of the system that allowed the drill to reenter a borehole multiple times broke into pieces.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This is actually the second attempt to drill the second of two test boreholes.
    — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2026
  • And, in those cases, a new borehole would need to be drilled from the surface that bypasses the obstacle.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Water shortages used to be common, but are increasingly rare thanks to new boreholes.
    — Julian Hattem, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The reactor is placed one mile beneath the surface inside a narrow borehole.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Deep boreholes like this one can tell scientists a lot about Earth’s interior.
    — Andrew Gase, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The system circulates water and antifreeze through a mile of pipes and 88 boreholes.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2024
  • Typically, this is handled by filling the upper area of the borehole with cement plugs.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
  • 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
  • Case’s drilling concept generates the force needed for the tip from the peristaltic segments within the borehole.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The team suggests that thousands of similar boreholes may also release large amounts of methane.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The slow movement of Earth’s mantle would eventually cause a borehole to bend and collapse.
    — Andrew Gase, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2024
  • With the help of donors, Nkuraiya gathers water in a borehole, a small-diameter well.
    — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Catching the problem early—by noting any boreholes, rust, or damage—can preserve a beloved antique.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Even with no hiccups, the boreholes could take days to drill, especially where Thwaites thickens to more than a half mile.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
  • In November, the team drilled a borehole about three kilometres deep, setting a depth record for the agency.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • To lessen the tension, Fichtner rested the cable on the borehole’s slightly inclined side.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Early analyses also suggest that the small organic acid formate is present in the borehole water.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024

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