SHAFT in a Sentence

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For SHAFT, below is one of 69 sentences:
Thrice did Locksley bend his shaft against De Bracy, and thrice did his arrow bound back from the knight's armour of proof.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHAFT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shaft
 n.  axes; vertical passage into a mine; long narrow stem or body of a spear or arrow
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  A shaft of light like a yellow banner sloped from roof to floor.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  It was impossible to hush her; and it was deadly necessary to hold her, or she would have flung herself down the shaft.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
3  He was speaking almost at the instant that the shaft left the bowstring, yet it alighted in the target two inches nearer to the white spot which marked the centre than that of Hubert.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  "I will notch his shaft for him, however," replied Locksley.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  Thrice did Locksley bend his shaft against De Bracy, and thrice did his arrow bound back from the knight's armour of proof.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  Without treasure thou mayst as well hope to redeem thy child from the clutches of Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, as to shoot a stag-royal with a headless shaft.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  A huge driving-wheel and a shaft half-filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
8  I had to clamber down a shaft of perhaps two hundred yards.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  I had some thought of trying to go up the shaft again, and leave the Under-world alone.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
10  The air was full of the throb and hum of machinery pumping air down the shaft.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
11  It had almost burned through when I reached the opening into the shaft.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
12  A side door of the theatre opened suddenly and a shaft of light flew across the grass plots.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  A shaft of momentary anger flew through Stephen's mind at these indelicate allusions in the hearing of a stranger.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  The oblong skull beneath did not turn to meet this shaft of thought and yet the shaft came back to its bowstring; for he saw in a moment the student's whey-pale face.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  At the corner of a street the shaft of a lorry shivered the window of the hansom in the shape of a star.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  The piston is the only movable part, the force of the steam is directed to that part, and the motion is then transmitted to the crank, and to the shaft of the engine.
2  We don't know if we're going down to the ground floor or to the basement or whether the entire lift shaft is empty and we're plunging to our doom.
3  A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft.
4  A piston links to a drive shaft by means of a connecting rod.
5  She was shafted by her agent over the film rights to her book.