Sentence examples for shaft a from inspiring English sources

Visitors will also help build "Air Shaft," a vertical sculpture by Robert Hickman and Luisa Caldwell.

A muddy rift will widen into a shaft, a crawl space into a vaulting nave.

The crimes resemble the plot of "Blind Shaft," a 2003 Chinese movie.

Strangely, it was demolished in 1973 to build a railway ventilation shaft (a project that was in turn shelved subsequently).

He and his longtime partner, Marty Madden, share a place in Malibu with their basset hound, Bill, and his companion, Shaft, a dachshund.

In any place where you can hear their voices — a hotel courtyard, an air shaft, a street on a summer evening — you will hear harsh words.

It has been boarded over with jagged lumber and evokes an abandoned mine shaft, a madman's shanty or the urban hideout of a street gang.

He was last seen teetering on the grille of a deep, disused shaft, a group of bullying teenagers throwing stones at him.

Ms. Ivey portrays Edna Shaft, a spinster professor in love with Byron's poetry and alarmed by the Byronic excesses she sees in her students, who could easily have been a pinched, unsavory cartoon.

Alex Runswick of Unlock Democracy said: "The lack of female involvement … is a canary in the mining shaft, a particularly visible example of how the system fails to represent people more widely.

We act as if more trade is always better, even as we lose on every deal (Thea Lee of the AFL-CIO: "NAFTA then CAFTA, and we get the shaft-a").