Sentences with 'shaft'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shaft and other words derived from it.
• « Before he struck again, he looked down the shaft into the basement, where he caught a glimpse of a two-inch diameter pipe coming out of the plunger. »
• « The tip of the date was detachable. Why detachable? The most difficult part of making an arrow was not forming the shaft or the tip, he explains, but fitting the feathers - a demanding and time-consuming task. The feathers were carefully inserted with a slight slant so that the arrows would spin in flight like an artillery projectile, a device that increased their range and accuracy considerably and made them lethal at a distance of up to 30 metres. »
• « A strange object found in Olancha, California, which looked like a metal structure with a shaft, could only be defined by specialists as a spark plug from an internal combustion engine. »