elevator
Example Sentences
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The elevator gave rise to the skyscraper and reshaped how people live and work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Barnum to design an elevator demonstration for the 1853-54 World’s Fair in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Over the next 175 years, the elevator drove the rise of the skyscraper, concentrating jobs and capital in dense urban cores, and reshaping how millions of people lived and worked.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
While much of today’s advances are less showy, focused on things like energy efficiency and reducing elevator wait-times, some of what the industry is working on may yet produce a few gasps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Up ahead, a rusty elevator door awaits us.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
