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"Shaft" in a Sentence (33 examples)
This shaft links with a piston.
His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.
You are in a narrow rocky shaft. There is some light shining from far above. Below you is the cave you started in. What do you do now?
If the torque is too high, the shaft might break. That's why we are using a shear splint as a torque limiter.
When Robin was a youth of eighteen, the Sheriff of Nottingham proclaimed a shooting match and offered a prize of a butt of ale to whosoever should shoot the best shaft in Nottinghamshire.
From here, you can look down the elevator shaft.
The "lead" of the pencil is actually a mixture of graphite, clay and wax with a binder that seals the lead in the wooden shaft.
I wouldn't buy that used car. It has a broken crank shaft.
Then again / a third tall shaft I grasp, with sinewy strain / and firm knees pressed against the sandy ground; / when O! shall tongue make utterance or refrain? / forth from below a dismal, groaning sound / heaves, and a piteous voice is wafted from the mound:
The camera was lowered into the shaft.
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A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head.
Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
[…]and the Thunder, / Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath ſpent his ſhafts […]
The correction of theſe will reſtore its proper dignity to the ſtudy of antiquities, and cauſe the ſhafts of ridicule, which have been ſucceſsfully thrown at it, to recoil.
While Kitto chatted to William, Jessamy looked with interest at the dog cart. It had a pair of high wooden wheels with two seats back to back above. Between the shafts the bay mare tossed her head and fidgeted on the cobbles.
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!
Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?
They were a fine company of old women, and a Dutch painter would have loved to find them there together, where the sun made bright patches on the floor and sent long, quivering shafts of gold through the dusky shade up among the rafters.
I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!
Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.
Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.
Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare / To die, or leave their children free / Bid Time and Nature gently spare / The shaft we raise to thee.
The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males.
Eight shafts are required to weave this structure. If you have four shafts, you may weave something similar by threading alternate blocks to plain weave and 2/2 basket.
I sat on the sofa, got up, changed channels and doubted there'd be time to have a quick shaft and feign an orgasm today.
Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
Who can I trust after repeatedly being shafted
Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.
Which grotesque auld hing-oot will the shrivelled post-menopausal slag want tae shaft? Stay tuned.
Well at least I can get it up. No wonder Mary's going out of her head. Stuck with you sponging off her and not even a decent shafting for her trouble.
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