air shaft
Example Sentences
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Godot died at age 3 on Dec. 23, 1966, not long after a fall down an air shaft on the roof of Paulekas’ home/studio during a photo shoot with the Los Angeles Free Press.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022
Video footage released by the department showed a firefighter rappelling down an air shaft before the victim was lifted out in a stretcher.
From Fox News • Dec. 22, 2021
The little 1963 shelf-and-tube piece reappears in larger, more elaborate versions, its horizontal air shaft intact.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020
My apartment had a bedroom too small to fit a desk or even a dresser, and its single window faced an air shaft the color of dryer lint.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 16, 2019
He raised his window quietly and threw the writing pen from the table against the window across the air shaft.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
