dumbwaiter

Example Sentences

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Joshua Shaw, a 27-year-old carpenter with Mavid Construction, died in June after he was struck by a dumbwaiter car while working inside one of the football stadium’s video scoreboards, WLUK-TV reported Tuesday.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

It's a dumbwaiter that was designed to carry these heavy glass plates.

From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023

And yet when I finally, as an adult, had a dumbwaiter shaft in my old, rented house, I found it scary, drafty.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022

When it got crazy, they would put me in this dumbwaiter between levels in the restaurant and send me to this downstairs bar.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2018

Then I send down the dumbwaiter and raise the trays one by one.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan