elevator
Example Sentences
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Barnum to design an elevator demonstration for the 1853-54 World’s Fair in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Some are even exploring technology that might one day allow elevator cars to move not only vertically but horizontally, blurring the line between buildings and urban-transportation systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Over the next 175 years, the elevator drove the rise of the skyscraper, concentrating jobs and capital in dense urban cores, and reshaping how millions of people lived and worked.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Steel cables limit how far one elevator can safely travel, forcing riders to transfer between elevator banks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Being visible would remind everyone of how much I’d contributed, and if everything went well, my days of pushing buttons and pulling the elevator grate would soon be over.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
