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Example sentences for: shaft

How can you use “shaft” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Unsecured creditors get the shaft in mining bankruptcy.
The socket cell is also polarized in the same direction as the shaft as it is higher on one side than the other.
For there, in the center of the picture, was what looked like a brilliant shaft of multicolored light, coming from above and directed exactly at Arrigan.
violent enthusiasts of war, torture, human sacrifice and painful blood-letting rituals, ''whose king was required to stick a rod through the shaft of his own penis on ceremonial occasions.
Apparently, some rescue workers took an adjacent elevator to the place where the man and woman were stuck, took out the side panels that separated the two elevator cars, then asked them to make a tightrope walk across a narrow beam that spanned the shaft between the two elevators, as if these two poor knee-knocking souls were suddenly the second coming of Karl Wallenda.