borehole

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (5)  · 
“
They said each time a borehole is drilled, the land around it subsided.

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Maybe I didn't really sense her finger tightening about the trigger, but I sure thought I did, and for a single frozen heartbeat I couldn't see a thing but the enormous barrel of that shotgun, hateful and deadly as a borehole to hell. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 01 - January 2000
  • Water from the borehole was trickling down the alley, creeping over the plastic sheets, but one of the people there still slept anyway. —  Asimov'sSF,August2008
  • "If you find a man head first halfway down a borehole, it's more than likely that death will be due to suffocation True, Doctor," Prudhomme said lightly. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • Peter Marlowe remembered that it was his unit's turn for the borehole detail. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • Larkin lifted the cover off a borehole, Peter Marlowe quickly scooped the sides with the net. —  Clavell - King Rat
More examples »
 

Tags

borehole hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 41 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

murmuring · distasteful · AstroTurf · brag · transmissive

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich