chute
Example Sentences
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“He read an article that said coal was down the chute,” Borthwick recalls.
Subterranean bins have been built into the brick pavement on street corners, where residents can drop their bags into a chute above ground.
From BBC
“The Chair Company” allows us to see how anyone might fall down the chutes into which Robinson’s Joe Average easily slides.
From Salon
“Someone might have stolen my spot because they ran down a 3,000-meter ski chute where gravity is helping you,” he said.
In a mistake that the rigger would not discover until later, they included a dummy chute that would not open.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
