Sentence examples for shaft about from inspiring English sources

A 2008 document noted a blueprint for a 400-metre shaft, about six miles from a "firing control point".

The control system detects and then adjusts the position of the shaft about 15,000 times a second by redistributing the current to the electromagnets.

Rescuers pumped out water and drilled holes to provide oxygen to the miners who were swamped after a flash flood raced through an old shaft about 125 miles west of Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province.

Florencio Ávalos, 31, the first miner to emerge from the rocket-shaped rescue capsule on Tuesday night, was cleanshaven and amazingly hearty as he walked into the arms of his family after being pulled through a shaft about 2,000 feet long — two Eiffel Towers, as one cable anchor put it.

The crosse is a staff that is sharply bent at the top to form a hook from the end of which a thong is drawn and fastened to the shaft about 2 or 3 feet (0.6 or 0.9 metre) from the end of the handle, forming an oval triangle that is woven with a loose network of leather, nylon, or gut to form the pocket with which the ball is handled.

As such, a wheel cannot be permanently attached to the axle or shaft about which it rotates (or if the axle and wheel are fixed together, the axle cannot be affixed to the rest of the machine or organism).

The shafts about which the pulleys turn may affix them to frames or blocks, and a combination of pulleys, blocks, and rope or other flexible material is referred to as a block and tackle.

Instead, the GOP's proposing a plan that would benefit our 2,100,000 highest earning households, while shafting about 25 million others.

His then PA, Rani Abraham, has argued throughout that she had access to the emails as part of her job and therefore was exposed to the jokes about "shaft: "gash", "big titted broads" and "female irrationality" when women have children.

After removal of bandaging placed by prison medical staff, his genitourinary exam revealed an uncircumcised penis with two horizontal lacerations on the dorsal shaft, one about 1.5 cm from the base of the penis and about 1 cm in width, and the other about 1 cm from the glans and about 1 cm wide (Figures 1 and 2).

The shaft is about a foot longer than the average, and the head has a flange at the bottom, which, Campbell says, keeps him from stubbing putts.