Sentence examples for wide shaft from inspiring English sources

In these last months, as the wide shaft of light that falls across the kitchen floor has dwindled to a sliver on the table, I find myself searching out the light, cataloging its various sources, then itemizing their deficits.

The corridor ended after a hundred feet or so, at a point partway up one side of a tall, wide shaft that an S.C.A. team had recently cleared of debris.

Extant humans display PDPs with relatively wide shafts and apical tuberosities (see Figure 2), as indicated by the low loads on the PC1.

Instead, workers spent more than a year digging an eighty-three-foot-wide shaft down to it.

The remains, which were found in a 5.5m-wide shaft at the edge of Charterhouse Square in Farringdon, are thought to be victims of The Black Death.

From the bottom of the shoulder-wide shaft, the 66-year-old former dictator thrust both hands skyward, signaling to Special Operations forces soldiers that he would offer no resistance.

To get the men out, the rescuers began drilling a twenty-eight-inch-wide shaft directed at a passageway near the mechanics' workshop, but told them that they might have to wait until Christmas, some four months longer, to be rescued.

The goalie's stick has a wider shaft and blade than those of the other players.

The wider shaft will contain a huge cylinder, made either of the rock the shaft is cut through or of concrete, to act as a piston.When the pump-turbine is opened, the piston sinks, driving water around the circuit and through the turbine, generating power.

For their study, in the March issue of The Journal of Forensic Sciences, the scientists looked at the skeletons and records of more than 100 white men at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and found that the femurs of those with a higher body mass index had a wider shaft.

In March 2013, Crossrail engineers uncovered 25 skeletons in a 5.5m-wide shaft - alongside pottery dated to the mid-14th Century.