How To Use Mineshaft In A Sentence
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Gone are the disused mineshafts, spoil heaps and rusting machinery and in their place are smart new offices and homes, shops and leisure facilities.
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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.
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Near the end of the film her character falls down a mineshaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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They constructed bunk beds, sawed a mattress in half to fit and plumbed a lavatory into an old tin mineshaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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When it comes to our ability to keep our planet habitable, air quality is the canary in the mineshaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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We played at the tops of mineshafts in West Virginia and at union meetings in New York.
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Two men working down a mineshaft in rural China pose as brothers.
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It was better, they said, to starve at home than underground, toiling in a hellish mineshaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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A retired mining engineer was shocked to discover an old mineshaft had opened up in a field where he walks every day.
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The most significant discoveries came from the upper fills of the mineshaft excavated in 1971 by Roger Mercer, where two inhumation burials were uncovered.
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The celebrity steeplejack started building the pithead system with a 70 ft mineshaft to pay tribute to Bolton's history, but got into trouble after neighbours complained.
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There's always someone with cancer, or losing their leg or stuck down a mineshaft.
The Sun
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In yesterday's note, I forgot to mention that we also explored some abandoned mineshafts and prisons (where we climbed the guard tower and found the old gallows chamber).
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Disused mineshafts in Johannesburg could be turned into catacomb-style cemeteries, in a bid by the City Parks agency to accommodate the increasing number of people dying from AIDS.
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Seven workers were killed when the fire raced through the mineshaft.
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The celebrity steeplejack started building a fully-working Victorian mineshaft behind his house in Radcliffe Road, Bolton, without asking permission.
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As she lies bleeding, caked in mud and freezing in the dark mineshaft, the rescue teams search fruitlessly for her.
The Sun
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The workers were digging at an abandoned mineshaft that was depleted of commercial reserves.
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It took three hours of climbing to reach the top where a sign warned of mineshafts.
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He says in the 1950's there were plans to dump nuclear waste in mineshafts.
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Fred had already dug seven metres of a mineshaft at his Grade II listed home when councillors refused him retrospective planning permission after complaints from neighbours.
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Skippy was just explaining to the park ranger the whereabouts of the lost boy in the mineshaft, when we heard the blast.
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Curiously, Yang avoids the claustrophobic tension of the mineshaft.
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As part of the work, deep mineshafts and an underground canal system will be made safe.
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There is enough money to keep the mineshafts open until next Tuesday, but after that the colliery will have to be ‘capped’ unless further funds can be found.
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They threw the bodies down a mineshaft, only to discover that it was too shallow.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the last days of his life he was digging a mineshaft in his backyard, convinced that deposits of gold were to be found there.
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Add one teaspoon urine from the tub in the basement of the Mineshaft.
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I am the canary in the mineshaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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The geology of the immediate area of the Detroit Salt Mine was derived from logs of the mineshafts, exploratory core holes and nearby oil, gas and brine wells.
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The mineshaft at the front has been professionally capped.
The Sun
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We shot on real locations, and we actually went down the mineshafts.
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She was thrown down a mineshaft, and as she lay broken at the bottom a live grenade was tossed down on her.
