How to use "shaft" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "shaft" in popular movie and book plots

  • Bart escapes through a ventilation shaft and takes Groundskeeper Willie's tractor for a joyride, crashing into Chalmers.  - Whacking Day
  • At the bottom of the shaft they find an empty artefact made of adamantium.  - Gridlinked
  • Entering the camp, they loose shaft after shaft into the charging corsairs from their deadly longbows.  - Mariel of Redwall
  • Linda and Matt find the nitroglycerin about to explode and decide to climb up the elevator shaft to escape.  - Hollow Man
  • One rod was not actually solid as Mulch and his cousin had diverted sewage into the shaft instead.  - Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
  • Petra has the drilling stopped, and, with the project abandoned, Sir Keith arranges to have the shaft filled in.  - Inferno (Doctor Who)
  • Sunny climbs up the shaft with her razor sharp teeth, gets their ersatz rope and jumps back down into the net.  - The Ersatz Elevator
  • They lure the snake into the water treatment plant by having it chase John through a shaft while they set a bomb near the entrance.  - Python (film)
  • Harrigan follows it down an elevator shaft and finds a spacecraft in an underground chamber.  - Predator 2
  • Robin tells him the hull near the propeller shaft is only one inch (254 cm) thick.  - The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)
  • On the French side, an old retired miner (Alex Bernard) sneaks into the shaft hoping to rescue his young grandson (Pierre-Louis).  - Kameradschaft
  • The weapon pierced a hole in Ronan's bell (hanging on his breast), and the broken-off shaft hurled in the air.  - Buile Shuibhne
  • Challis escapes through a ventilation shaft and rescues Ellie.  - Halloween III: Season of the Witch
  • Outraged, John pulls him out of the air shaft and beats him up.  - John Q.
  • He is eventually tasked with ascending the central shaft of the highest tower in a vacuum balloon in order to reach its control room.  - Feersum Endjinn
  • When Charlie dives under the boat, he finds the propeller shaft hopelessly twisted "like a cork screw" and a blade missing from the propeller.  - The African Queen (film)

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