dumbwaiter

Example Sentences

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The grave confines of the men’s basement room seem to suggest a space where anything can happen — from a murder to a series of communications delivered by a dumbwaiter.

From New York Times

Its lofty isolation inspired Eddy to build the counterweight cable-car system that sent two little wooden cars up and down “like a robber baron’s extravagant dumbwaiter,” wrote Jim Dawson in his book about Angels Flight.

From Los Angeles Times

They also installed a dumbwaiter in the kitchen — another idea that Pushelberg was originally skeptical of.

From New York Times

The facility today still bears traces of that history: a door to a staff bathroom that’s too narrow for a wheelchair, a defunct dumbwaiter that’s been painted over.

From Seattle Times

A dumbwaiter runs between the kitchen and theater.

From Los Angeles Times