At modern 90- and 120-meter (295- and 394-foot) ski jumps, elevators whisk competitors up the innards of a steel structure.

Dan winced, relaxing as the elevator whisked the two of us up to the ninth floor.

She was stonily silent, so I settled for whistling tunelessly as the private elevator whisked us upstairs.

Strollers are checked by the kindly ushers, and elevators can whisk you upstairs if the main staircase is too daunting.

A wood-paneled elevator whisked him up 10 floors and opened directly onto the formal foyer of the financier's apartment.

The elevator whisked me into the sky, and Cerberus, in the guise of an anaemic office boy, guarded the door.

The elevator whisked them back to the ground floor.

A discreet steel-doored elevator whisks customers with cash and valuables to their safe-deposit boxes.

The hall ended in a curving marble staircase, where twin elevators whisked members to the upper floors.

An unnervingly silent elevator whisked them to the second floor.