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elevator

[el-uh-vey-ter] / ˈɛl əˌveɪ tər /
NOUN
lift
Synonyms


Example Sentences

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The elevator grinds to a shaking stop and the door yawns open.

From Literature

Year after year, I would see them in the lobby and on the elevators.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pellets are fed back into the reactor with a simple grain elevator, and the reactor itself has no moving parts.

From The Wall Street Journal

Air-traffic controllers evacuated a tower after reporting a burning smell from an elevator, an incident the FAA later insisted wasn’t a fire.

From Barron's

Avoid using hotel elevators if you can because you never know who—or what other dog—will step in and upset your already travel-stressed pooch.

From The Wall Street Journal