How to Use drill team in a Sentence
drill team
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There are 1,000 seats set aside for the school band and drill team.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2021
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The dance and drill teams will compete at the Crowd Pleasers Dance Contest.
—Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
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Becky Gerdes, who was on Uvalde's drill team, has been with Randy since high school.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2022
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Members of the cheer and drill team were the first to report the taunts on social media.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
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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
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The same thing is true for choirs, orchestra and drill team students.
—Alvaro Montano, Chron, 23 Oct. 2020
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There were no marching bands, no drum and bugle corps, no drill team.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2021
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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
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The drill team departed on Monday for an eight-day trip.
—Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
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One of the drill team’s primary goals is to study this recovery.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
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Robert Day and Alexandria Piper are the first openly gay and lesbian members on their drill team.
—Henry Quindara, USA TODAY, 1 July 2021
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Arellano later went on to be the drill team director at Klein Oak High School.
—Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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Her oldest child recently made her high school's drill team.
—NBC News, 29 June 2021
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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
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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
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More information about the drill team is available here.
—Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cortnie Schexnaider, the director of the drill team, didn't respond to an email seeking comment.
—Chron, 18 Mar. 2022
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Ain’t just the drill team getting ready for Area Three (competition) anymore.
—Sarah Freishtat, Aurora Beacon-News, 16 Apr. 2018
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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
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Marching band, cheerleading and drill team can resume on Sept. 21.
—Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2020
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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
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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
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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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