Sentence examples for its shaft from inspiring English sources

The pipette was held in a micromanipulator mounted on the stage of a compound microscope and scribed transversely at a point along its shaft where it was a little over 40 μm in diameter using a diamond knife under visual control at 250 × magnification.

Use a pair of pliers to grip the impeller by the blade and pull it off of its shaft.

If a large bone should be transplanted it might be well to remove a portion of its shaft longitudinally in order to permit the ready access of a blood supply to the medulla.

As its shaft was entirely filled with sand and stones, it had not been surveyed by the Theban Mapping Project (http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/, for a first sketch of the tomb http://aegyptologie.unibas.ch/?id=21700, access date: Dec. 20, 2014).

Positive clutches are collars with jaws that interlock, one member being rigidly attached to its shaft while the other slides on its shaft.

His tiny fists clenched and unclenched its shaft, and his greasepaint smile turned to a frown.

In Kentridge's awe-inspiring installation The Refusal of Time, a kind of huge perpetual motion machine – lovingly crafted out of wood – cranks its shafts and pumps its pistons while around it films are projected and speakers blare speech and music.

In 2004, the mining company broke it to the town that its days were numbered: digging its shafts towards the city at an angle of 60 degrees, subsidence would soon lead to buildings' widespread cracking and collapse.

Sulky, originally a light, open, one-horse, four-wheeled vehicle with its single seat for only one person fixed on its shafts.

Anglo American Platinum said Friday that just 20 percent of its workers had been showing up at its shafts, forcing the closing of the company's entire operation in the Rustenberg area, home to the world's richest platinum deposit.

New Yorkers (and pretenders, like me) bring visitors just to gaze up at the celestial vaulted ceiling or to look down at views that echo Kurt Hulton's famous photograph of its shafts of midday window-light, to see the swirls of scurrying people around the clock, to watch the meetings and the partings, the happy, the homesick and the homeless.