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mineshaft

[ UK /mˈa‍ɪnʃɑːft/ ]
NOUN
  1. excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine

How To Use mineshaft In A Sentence

  • Gone are the disused mineshafts, spoil heaps and rusting machinery and in their place are smart new offices and homes, shops and leisure facilities.
  • Yet Li's film is also a fine social comedy - albeit one colored as black as pitch - about how you don't have to work in a mineshaft to see your life descending into darkness.
  • Near the end of the film her character falls down a mineshaft. Times, Sunday Times
  • They constructed bunk beds, sawed a mattress in half to fit and plumbed a lavatory into an old tin mineshaft. Times, Sunday Times
  • When my father would come home from a long day in the mineshafts, he was always drenched from head to toe in that foul paste.
  • These are good canary-in-the-mineshaft indicators not only for insects but also for the birds and mammals that feed on them. Times, Sunday Times
  • When it comes to our ability to keep our planet habitable, air quality is the canary in the mineshaft. Times, Sunday Times
  • We played at the tops of mineshafts in West Virginia and at union meetings in New York.
  • Two men working down a mineshaft in rural China pose as brothers.
  • It was better, they said, to starve at home than underground, toiling in a hellish mineshaft. Times, Sunday Times
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