adit

Example Sentences

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"As soon as you go in through that adit, you could literally be back in the 1800s," he said.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2021

Once the tunnel was in use, the adit served as a ventilation shaft.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021

Garrett Wake, Division of Minerals southern Nevada chief, classified Roman’s home as an adit - a horizontal opening in a hillside that he said didn’t present much of a danger.

From Washington Times • Nov. 29, 2019

Lina points to a low tunnel leading off the main passage, an access adit perhaps two feet high.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2019

“Well, suppose you drive right through that nat’ral adit, as you may call it, for thirty or forty, or p’r’aps fifty fathom, what would you hit?”

From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville