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UK
/mˈaɪnʃɑːft/
]
NOUN
- 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