How to Use drill down in a Sentence

drill down

verb
  • Now drill down further and look at what happened in those games.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Well, let’s drill down on one potential theme.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Then start drilling down to specific spots.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But the decision to drill down on a vintage vibe was a smart one.
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
  • By drilling down into the details to uncover which one best fits your unique needs.
    — Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
  • You are drilled down creatively in the moment, shooting in the extreme heat.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The Tigers also drilled down on not committing fouls in practice.
    — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Yet, too many will still drill down and find fault with what Charlie Kirk said at some point in his activism.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, despite his last-minute rehearsals, Kimmel does have his pregame drill down.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Genome sequencing viruses in samples can drill down even further.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
  • The company is now focused on drilling down on Coach and Kate Spade.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But since nobody's ever drilled down that far, science hasn't been able to say whether the rock down there can crack and let water through.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Raghunathan says that people around the world are now drilling down and asking questions about localized fare.
    — Kalpana Mohan, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The next stage allows the federal agency to drill down deeper by moving the testing to bulk tanks.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 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
  • After April, then fame, then drilling down on your right path, then help, protection, benevolence.
    — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The researchers also drilled down to specific regions.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
  • By tracking key data points, a company might be able to spot who closed the most tickets—and drill down into details.
    — Ryan Wong, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lucy Smith looks set to drill down on the event at a MipTV presentation.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Users can also drill down further to see the total number of outages by state, county and company.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Let facts inform your decision, ignore claims or twisted logic and drill down to the real real.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Let facts inform your decision; ignore claims or twisted logic and drill down to the real real.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • So the idea is that users will drill down deeper into things, spurred on by the introduction made by the AI tool.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Scientists there eventually managed to drill down more than ten thousand feet.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • As a county commissioner, she was known for drilling down deep on problems and then chipping away at what was needed for action.
    — Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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