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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:

The Washington Post photo department, says Quinn, thinks that the "brilliant shaft of multicolored light" is lens flare.
Masons dug a shaft 10 m (33 ft) into the bedrock for Ramses III’s tomb (11) c.1151.
The long tomb shaft is decorated with excellent paintings depicting chapters of the Book of the Dead — the rituals to be performed for Egyptians to reach the afterlife.
Macrofiber self-assembly ceases when structures become too stiff to supercoil into a plectoneme as a result of the number of cell filaments in the fiber shaft.
The answer was that the bon mot is a shaft of wit.