shaft

Example Sentences

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It plans to sink the mine’s first shaft this year, and hopes to repeat similar success in Congo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Italian golfer Andrea Pavan has been seriously injured after falling multiple floors down an open lift shaft before this week's South African Open.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

A pair of turbines are joined to a single shaft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Here are two films largely about torturous family dynamics; why is Winslet’s getting the shaft?

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

The phosphate backbone twisted inside, like the central shaft of a spiral staircase, with its treads facing out.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee