Sentence examples for empty shaft from inspiring English sources

An elevator opens at the push of a button, but leaves you peering down into an empty shaft.

Circling wildly within the film's main set — a stalled elevator car — or hurtling up and down an empty shaft, Mr. Fujimoto's camera is as giddy as a tween at a Justin Bieber concert.

Yet even here, Zemeckis can't restrain himself from some 3-D stunts, including one involving an empty shaft in the unfinished South Tower, that add nothing to the drama but a clumsy representation of an idea terrifying enough in the imagining.

Ray has a back problem from falling into an empty elevator shaft after finding his girlfriend in the bathroom with another man.

The woman was not about to step into an empty elevator shaft or be flattened by a falling tree limb.

Like the time David E. Kelley, then running the NBC drama "L.A. Law," had the show's hugely popular villainess, Rosalind Shays, accidentally step into an empty elevator shaft.

An empty elevator shaft gaped at the end of the hall, there was no running water, and a cinder block sat treacherously in the middle of a staircase.

As John Coltrane memorably recalled, "If you didn't keep aware all the time of what was going on, you'd suddenly feel as if you'd stepped into an empty elevator shaft".

✒It was hard not to enjoy Radio Times TV editor Alison Graham's giant harrumph attacking the idea that Twitter now wields more influence than pro reviewers (Twitter "is really just yelling down an empty lift shaft … it can only react. Critics are the influential ones. WE are the ones who start the conversation").

She felt something fall several stories down an empty elevator shaft in her heart.

It's like calling an empty mine shaft "deep" and "dark".