A new method for custom tile printing involving a diamond-tipped drill controlled by a special type of computer.

Max supervised the fitting of a diamond-tipped drill and the two crews started to sink the string back down the borehole on the double.

These people are the reason every emergency room has a diamond-tipped drill.

When it was still underwater, Poseidon divers had tried a diamond-tipped drill on it, to no effect.

They scratched like diamond-tipped drills.

Progress was slow because of the dense caliche, or hardpan rock, that blunted even diamond-tipped pneumatic drills.

Even a diamond-tipped drill could not penetrate the machine's shell.' '

Yesterday they had tried the diamond-tipped drill and gotten nowhere.

A diamond-tipped drill, Spock!

The next step was to create a cross-tunnel, but the five feet of rock separating the shaft from the well proved to be so hard that it rapidly dulled diamond-tipped drills.