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Example sentences for: shaft

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The interior core of the buildings was a hollow steel shaft, in which elevators and stairwells were grouped.
Masons dug a shaft 10 m (33 ft) into the bedrock for Ramses III’s tomb (11) c.1151.
The Washington Post photo department, says Quinn, thinks that the "brilliant shaft of multicolored light" is lens flare.
Cell growth continues beyond this point however forcing the fiber shaft to supercoil into a free standing helix that contracts into a ball-like form [ 6 ] . Filaments that grow on the surface of a ball can buckle and initiate the outgrowth of fibers that remain anchored to the ball surface [ 7 ] . These too supercoil when they reach a critical length or when they encounter an external impediment to their twisting.
Vermeer's single shaft of luminosity from window or door evokes an otherworldly reality.