Sentence examples for shafted- from inspiring English sources

One said Balls "shafted himself" by his near-public bid for the job.

Nice is good in one's personal life, but nice people tend to get shafted in business.

Supermac merely shafted a third of his cabinet.

The truth is that property owners in London have made out like bandits during the crash, while those at the bottom have been shafted.

Politics is all about arguing who will be shafted - and the answer may differ from country to country.

The country's left-wing government, first led by Néstor Kirchner and then this year by his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has violated many standard economic prescriptions: it has shunned the IMF and shafted private bondholders; kicked out foreign companies and set up new state-owned ones; imposed price controls; and even doctored the inflation figure.

Inventive minds created novel clubs, not only centre-shafted and aluminum putters and the sand wedge but also types that were such radical departures from the traditional form and make that they could not be approved by the USGA or the R&A.

On either side of North America's Great Plains are 35 pairs of sister taxa including western and eastern bluebirds (Sialia mexicana and S. sialis), red-shafted and yellow-shafted flickers (both considered subspecies of Colaptes auratus), and ruby-throated and black-chinned hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris and A. alexandri).

Waterbirds include gulls, scoters, cormorants, and loons; those most often seen on land are kingfishers, warblers, bobwhites, brown thrashers, sparrow hawks, yellow-shafted flickers, and whippoorwills.

Bluebirds, cardinals, blue jays, mockingbirds, doves, woodpeckers, owls, hawks, yellow-shafted flickers (called yellowhammers in Alabama), and an occasional eagle are found here.

"We're not a deep-shafted mine, so men and rescue teams can get in and out quite effectively and they'll be able to explore the mine quite quickly".