"shaft" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We used an ancient tunnel for the burial site--a leftover shaft dug three thousand years earlier by some unknown alien race.
- The shaft we can dig.
- Early tombs - vertical shafts dug to hold a single body - were created only for a hereditary aristocracy.
- If the uranium is too far below the surface for open pit mining, an underground mine might be used with tunnels and shafts dug to access and remove uranium ore.
- A shaft dug into the valley was possibly used as a water source.
- A shaft dug into the kurgan indicated that this later grave had been robbed, another means by which water and snow entered and seeped into the Ice Maiden's hollow burial chamber.
- The Sarian was aware that the interior of the tree led into a shaft dug in the solid ground and a moment later he felt his feet touch the floor of a dark tunnel.
- The early catacombs comprised a singular shaft and chamber tombs dug from the vertical face of a quarry.
- He snatched a second shaft and this time dug with all his might at the line of cleavage just beyond the bar.
- The resultant shaft of blue energy pulverized the root and dug past it into the rocky red ground below.
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