The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

Usage examples of boring.

The drill might probe lower and lower, boring steadily nearer to the dome of the anticline, but in all our minds was that sense of being trapped, of not being able to get out.

Dismissing these, she returned her attention begrudgingly to the boring passages Ivan had lauded.

It was embarrassing at times and always boring, but her view was that casual racism, sexism and homophobia always had to be confronted.

It was boring and routine work, but Lo Manto turned the weakness of the beat into a future strength.

He pushed the revs up and up, hurrying the car to eighty then to ninety, his huge Marchal headlights boring a safe white tunnel, nearly half a mile long, between the walls of the night.

The panzer is into Johnson County before Cowboy detects a radar boring toward him from the east, low enough to be attached to an aircraft.

Fay said petulantly, watching the eternally boring landscape of Oklahoma rolling by.

As for his passion, I have a melancholy suspicion that I share it with his cook: he was boring on for ever tonight about a way of serving teal with poivrade sauce!

But the charade would probably fool most context-sensitive monitoring devices or agency flacks drafted to listen to the predictably boring conversations of a bus driver like herself.

Shaiaasu and his ships had just spent a thoroughly boring month resurveying Shanak.

I now knew more about Ned Sanderman than I did about some of my own relatives, the primary fact being that he was boring.

After Sarge left, we set about the boring task of getting our dorm ready: mopping, dusting, cleaning ourselves and our environment.

Basilica itself, but his senses, he knows, can no longer be trusted, for he also seems to hear the murderous cries of squealing assassins, angels fluttering and making rude windy noises overhead, and a little whistlmg sound inside his skull as though something might be boring away in there, and the blur before his eyes is throbbing as though his pulse were beating on him from without.

There was a little mining in the area, so there was always a smattering of miners in town buying supplies, getting cleaned up from several months out on their claims, or just raising a little hell before they went back to the supremely boring task of trying to wrest a little wealth from the bowels of stingy Mother Earth.

He got Jock to give a brief explanation of thermic cutting and boring, then himself explained about the security precautions and the closed-circuit camera scanning the strong-room.