How to Use drill team in a Sentence

drill team

noun
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  • There are 1,000 seats set aside for the school band and drill team.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The dance and drill teams will compete at the Crowd Pleasers Dance Contest.
    — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Becky Gerdes, who was on Uvalde's drill team, has been with Randy since high school.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Members of the cheer and drill team were the first to report the taunts on social media.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • And then, my older sister was on the drill team at our middle school and high school.
    — Dessane Lopez Cassell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The same thing is true for choirs, orchestra and drill team students.
    — Alvaro Montano, Chron, 23 Oct. 2020
  • There were no marching bands, no drum and bugle corps, no drill team.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2021
  • Camp said her pursuit of an EMS career stems in part from failure to make the drill team in high school.
    — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2020
  • The drill team departed on Monday for an eight-day trip.
    — Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • One of the drill team’s primary goals is to study this recovery.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
  • Robert Day and Alexandria Piper are the first openly gay and lesbian members on their drill team.
    — Henry Quindara, USA TODAY, 1 July 2021
  • Arellano later went on to be the drill team director at Klein Oak High School.
    — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • One of her daughters is on the dance drill team, and Ware continually struggles to pay the fees.
    — Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The bus was part of a convoy of buses carrying members of the marching band and drill teams to Pullman.
    — Charles H. Featherstone, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2019
  • As an incoming high-school freshman, Brown hoped to find salvation in the drill team, the Bearkadettes, but didn’t make the cut.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Her oldest child recently made her high school's drill team.
    — NBC News, 29 June 2021
  • Youth dance groups, marching bands and drill teams entertained crowds in a parade along King Drive earlier in the day.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2023
  • As a teenager on the drill team, Carol Patterson used to perform in the city's Juneteenth parade.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2022
  • More information about the drill team is available here.
    — Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Ahrendt says the drill team lost most of their props, costumes and other equipment due to the flooding from Hurricane Harvey.
    — Jacob McAdams, Houston Chronicle, 30 Dec. 2017
  • Riding the wave of popularity, the drill team has since opened up a GoFundMe to fund raise funds for the group's endeavors.
    — Fernando Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
  • In my high school, there was something called drill team, which is a very Texas tradition, and—to use a Grease metaphor—if the cheerleaders were Sandy, the drill team was Rizzo.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The middle school drill team, named the Tigerettes, consists of 18 students and recently formed in September.
    — Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Cortnie Schexnaider, the director of the drill team, didn't respond to an email seeking comment.
    — Chron, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Ain’t just the drill team getting ready for Area Three (competition) anymore.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Aurora Beacon-News, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Truzy said earlier that a win would be nice, but the calling of the drill team was higher than winning competitions.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Marching band, cheerleading and drill team can resume on Sept. 21.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The first is known as regulation, in which about 10 members of each drill team showcase an assigned routine.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2022
  • She'd just been handed the first real setback in her young life, failure to make the school's drill team, an outcome that her young mind struggled to comprehend.
    — Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
  • Although Anaheim is the only high school drill team to perform in a Super Bowl halftime show, for the first 26 years the show contained some sort of college marching band.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022

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