Sentence examples for elevators stop from inspiring English sources
Take skyscrapers: their efficiencies may become nightmares in a blackout, as the elevators stop working.
Power goes down, phones are cut out, elevators stop running, music stops and the rescue of a modern city begins to resemble the excavation of an ancient one.
Modeled on the intricate skip-stop system that Le Corbusier invented for his 1952 Unité d'Habitation building in Marseilles, France, the elevators stop on alternate floors.
The elevators stop at 12. In Mr. Goldman's 15 years of exile, he said, only two chancellors, both interims, have ventured up the stairs to 13: Bernard Mecklowitz and the current one, Harold O. Levy.
I naturally go, OK, elevators stop all the time, it's just cables pulling us up and down; what am I going to do if there's a problem with it?
They learned that the terminals, costing about $20,000 a year, drove Bloomberg's business; they discovered that the main elevators stop only on the sixth and ninth floors, forcing a manic feeling in the building as employees dash up and down staircases.
There will be two elevators stopping at each floor.
By Tuesday, the elevator shafts at Bellevue, the country's oldest public hospital, had flooded, so all 32 elevators stopped working.
Meanwhile, darkness could come at any time, elevators stopping between floors two and three, computers snapping off in schools full of children, street lights flickering on a choked city avenue.
But Mr. Nestor had a meeting downstairs, so they headed for the elevators, stopping at Mr. Levin's table to say goodbye.
On the Sabbath, one of its six passenger elevators stops at prerequested floors, but then it goes into regular service mode for five minutes before doing another round of Shabbos stops.
