air shaft
Example Sentences
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Godot died at age 3 on Dec. 23, 1966, not long after a fall down an air shaft on the roof of Paulekas’ home/studio during a photo shoot with the Los Angeles Free Press.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
Video footage released by the department showed a firefighter rappelling down an air shaft before the victim was lifted out in a stretcher.
From Fox News ● Dec. 22, 2021
The little 1963 shelf-and-tube piece reappears in larger, more elaborate versions, its horizontal air shaft intact.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
My apartment had a bedroom too small to fit a desk or even a dresser, and its single window faced an air shaft the color of dryer lint.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 16, 2019
He raised his window quietly and threw the writing pen from the table against the window across the air shaft.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
