NOUN
- a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor
How To Use elevator shaft In A Sentence
- A furniture pantechnicon was backing into the entrance of the freight elevator, and the carpets and stereo-speakers, dressing tables and bedside lamps would soon be carried up the elevator shaft to form the elements of a private world.
- When the food has been thoroughly moistened and crushed in the mouth and rolled into a lump, or bolus, at the back of the tongue, it is started down the elevator shaft which we call the gullet, or esophagus. A Handbook of Health
- A gray brick tunnel, dimly lighted, led to the elevator shaft.
- Every opening, other than a stairway, through the floor, or into an elevator shaft or hoistway, shall be securely closed at the close of each day by the occupant; and, if there is no occupant, by the lessee or owner. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
- I know that telephone signal must have been shielded in the elevator shaft, so what did you do then?
- The child was reportedly stuck between an elevator car and the elevator shaft at a residential dwelling.
- Later, they'd figure out that flaming jet fuel had shot down the elevator shaft.
- In this plate photography of the elevator shaft scene, the safety harness suspending Ewan McGregor ( Obi -Wan Kenobi) is clearly visible. It would be digitally removed in the final frame.
- Firefighters reportedly placed a ladder in the elevator shaft to reach the child.
- She was entering the lobby when a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft.
