paternoster

Example Sentences

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Such so-called paternoster elevators still survive in some German public buildings.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

It warns of the “risk of being crushed … between car and landing”, and states that the paternoster is only to be ridden “at the user’s own risk”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

I’m too impatient to wait for a conventional lift and the best thing about a paternoster is that you can hop on and off it as you please.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

The paternoster is the VW Beetle among lifts.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

The curfew sounded, and the boys, with their heads uncovered, mumbled a paternoster: the girls did the same; and then all crossed themselves.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold