Example sentences for: shafts

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

  • Take the fascinating trip along the shafts and galleries of the abandoned Ocean Deep Mine, which reaches 17 km (11 miles) under the sea.

  • Look for the ventilation shafts that astronomers have proved aligned with major constellations in the skies of Ancient Egypt.

  • Tourist trains carry passengers between the caves and sinkholes (deep vertical shafts created when cave roofs collapse) that make up the park.

  • Antique shafts of porphyry, onyx, marble, and jasper, they seem to grow out of the paving stones like trees in an enchanted forest.

  • Immediately as you enter the compound you can get a bird’s-eye view of Grave Circle A, where the Royal grave shafts were found, and then climb to the top of the settlement to view the remains of the Royal Palace.


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