Sentence examples for shafts up from inspiring English sources
A 3.5-mile tunnel (the Woodhead) of the Manchester-Sheffield Railroad (1839 45) was driven from five shafts up to 600 feet deep.
Before disbanding on 22 February, it decided on a number of other issues, including the number of shafts (up to six were considered), the size of the anti-torpedo boat armament, and most importantly, to add longitudinal bulkheads to protect the magazines and shell rooms from underwater explosions.
It takes a square footprint and shoots it up 73 storeys, trussing the slender shaft up with gigantic red cross-gartered bracing.
Later, a heckler visibly shakes with anger as a socialist speaker repeatedly tells him he is being "shafted up the arse" by the government – an analogy he will frequently return to.
Push the drive shaft up as far as you can get it to go, and adjust your bungee or tighten the strap so there is as little wobble or play as possible.
An adjacent hut had been blown down, indicating a powerful blast had shot up the shaft.
Every now and then, their shafts picked up the sun and gave off an obscure sparkle.
Pumpkin-orange and white fibres intertwine as the shafts shift up and down – clack-clack, clack-clack, clack-clack.
Steel shafts held up better but triggered the magnetic detectors in mines.
The position of the points that outlined the femoral shaft slid up and down the shaft in an oppositional asymmetric manner.
As an actor, he has starred in films such as Shaft, Hell Up In Harlem and The Godfather.
