"shaft" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Parrien dealt Dakar a neck-cracking push that plunged him down through the darkened doorway and into the throat of an underground shaft.
- By the 1860s the alluvial gold had been exhausted and efforts turned to underground shafts in search of gold bearing quartz reefs.
- In the underground shafts of the former mines a feverish activity unfolded.
- Even though nothing remains of the mining operations above ground, the collapse of the underground shafts and tunnels caused damage as recently as 1989.
- Miles of underground shafts were driven in the course of working the quicksilver deposits in the area.
- A security guard was coming towards them, bent like a miner in an underground shaft, pushing a metal cart.
- Coal mining can often work through digging out underground shafts, but stripping off the land was cheaper.
- Beneath him in the underground shaft another workman is digging the soil and shovelling it onto the platform.
- It is mined in underground shafts and resembles shiny black obsidian.
- Herculaneum suffered equally badly, except that there underground shafts and tunnels had to be driven to get at the antiquities.
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