Sentence examples for shaft by from inspiring English sources

The rotary plow's essential feature is a set of knives or tines rotated on a shaft by a power source.

Instead it would replace the energy that is normally robbed from the drive shaft by the alternator-generator system, which provides for power steering, air-conditioning and heat.

The sealing is done by a lip on the elastomer ring that is pressed snugly around the shaft by a helically wound garter spring.

A heavy flywheel was added to smooth out the variations in the force delivered to the engine shaft by the action of the piston in the cylinder.

It is moved by an electric motor that raises or lowers the cab in a vertical shaft by means of wire ropes.

There is a squarish stone shaft by Alvaro Siza, an irregular stack of coloured blocks by Mecanoo, a glowering grey hulk by Norman Foster and a convoluted assemblage by Renzo Piano, complete with a leaning wall of LEDs.

Was Brown shafted by the prime minister?

Hello to all the decent and friendly and promising human beings currently being shafted by their government, much as we are being shafted by ours.

Hall, she says, "allowed himself to be shafted" by the government.

I don't know what the word is... shafted by successive government policies," he says.

One way or another you'll be shafted by Thomas whatever happens, my friend.