elevator
Example Sentences
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“You find walls built in factories, you see elevators, you see escalators,” said Smith.
From Los Angeles Times
First impressions had me doubting my decision: Unfinished plywood lined the cramped elevator and my room—a snug, white space-age capsule—looked like it had emerged from a 3-D printer.
Jonathan’s stomach rose into his throat, the way it sometimes did on a fast elevator.
From Literature
Her nagging conscience slips into offhand conversation: “I should probably be vegan,” Askell, an animal lover too busy for a pet, says when chatting in an office elevator.
After talking with his soon-to-be father-in-law—a sheet-metal worker—he took the union tests for plumbing, elevator construction and electrical work.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
