"shaft" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The deep shaft below the Place of Knowledge had collapsed during the great tremor, burying the cavern below and the Cynosure within the cavern under an unimaginable burden of rock.
- The shaft subsequently collapsed, and the excavation was again abandoned.
- It had all seemed so sound, so permanent, yet one more quake and the whole shaft could easily collapse in upon itself.
- The shafts have collapsed or have been filled in.
- Since then half the shaft collapsed and now all that can be seen is half of a cylindrical shaft through the cliff at the corner of Sullivan and Elliot Streets.
- Rescue crews managed to get about 300 feet underground before the shaft collapsed.
- He'd been sitting in her hall for the better part of an hour, and she was as effectively trapped as a coal miner when the shaft collapsed.
- Under Honduras, a subtrain shaft collapsed and eighteen hundred migratory agricultural workers were simultaneously cremated and dissolved in molten rock.
- Last summer, the wooden shaft that drives the gristmill collapsed and broke, a victim of rot.
- The "copper man" display, for example, shows the bones and tools of a Chilean copper miner who was killed when a shaft collapsed on him about 1,500 years ago.
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